Generally speaking, what can we do if we’re not having fun in improv? Well, we can examine the reasons. Was it just one bad show? Are we just having a bad streak? If that bad streak continues, then perhaps we need to examine deeper issues. Are we not playing in the right environment, with the right people, with the right format? Do we need to take a break? Due to the nature of improv, there are going to be off nights, shows which aren’t as fun, where we don’t get that high. But if it’s continually happening, then perhaps there is something greater at work that is worth thinking through.
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Patrick’s Improv Reflections – 09/30/15 Show→
Authentic Artifice→
Analogy Friday: Salt→
Two Shades of Funny→
“One of the notes I still get consistently is that I play the game too “cartoonish” or that I’m not grounding/justifying my actions enough.”→
Alex Fernie on being grounded – an indirectly explaining how pattern can be game but game is not pattern.
Deny the Mistake→
Everything you do on that stage is correct. If you forget a character’s name, you’d better keep forgetting it because your character has a bad memory. If you stumble on stage, barring an actual medical emergency, you’d better keep that stumble as part of your character.
Coaching a Coach→
Neil Casey 401 Notes Day Three→
- Group games are all about making small moves following the patterns listening to what everyone’s doing.
- Terrible group game is character a and 7 character b. bad is joke a person in a line. Not terrible but we can do that. Third bad one everyone talking over each other.
- A group game is not just a scene it can be but a good group game is when the intellect and ability of ability of 8 improvisers following a simple pattern. A lot more ouija board than video game
- Everyone’s tempted to take control but you’ll find something much more interesting if you’re just reacting, just like follow the follower: you did something and I’m going to do something like it not the same because I’m me