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improvnonsense reblogged khealywu:“The stage is my church and long form improvisational comedy is my religion and I want to practice it at every moment in my life. When I have felt most myself and most alive is when I have been living this way. Now, rock out with your cocks out.”
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The Danger of Clarity
Another pretentious theory post. I talked about this in the talk I gave this past Saturday at UCB, and by saying that I’m mentioning that I gave a talk at UCB on improv theory which was fun but is also ridiculous but below is some of what I talked about and hello! hello.
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The semantics of the game of the scene have become wonderfully clear in the last four or five years.
- If this is true, what else is true
- React to the first unusual thing
- Justify
- Peas in a pod
- Straight man/crazy man
- Framing
So clear that, tragically, they get overused! We talk game to death and ignore if we’re actually simply saying yes and building! We need our agreement and scenework vocabulary to be just as clear as our game-analyzing one is.
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Will, would you kinda touch upon this quote on Mick Napier's Wikipedia page? "He founded The Annoyance with the philosophy that training improvisers to be individually powerful is the best way to support those with whom one improvises, an answer to the Yes, And philosophy, which he found led to weak, polite improvisation more often than powerful, good improvisation, a subject that he elaborates on in his book, Improvise: Scene from the Inside Out." Sorry I don't have a more specific question.
I really like Mick’s book. I think it’s perfect to read after you’ve been doing improv for about a year or so. The idea of being individually powerful rather than meekly responsive is a great one! But I think built into Mick’s book is the assumption that you will listen to and be able to generally understand what the other people in the scene are saying. And when I watch lower level improvisers and in fact when I watch people in regular real life — NO ONE LISTENS, NO ONE UNDERSTANDS. So I think people gotta spend time being “meek and polite” until they can reliably understand what the fuck people are saying. Hello Alex.
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How Are You Supposed To Remember Stuff From the Opening? I Can Never Remember Stuff From The Opening! Do You Have Any Advice On Remembering Stuff From The Opening?
Be smarter?
Remember everything?
Enjoy it so you remember it like you remember your favorite movie/tv show?
I don’t know. Just do it. Remember stuff or don’t do improv.
