My latest Patterns & Games class embraced To The Ether style group games like no other class I've had. They had three To The Ether games in their showcase! It brings a tear to this guy's eye. I'm sharing 4 of them that I (obviously) recorded. They each showcase a nice lesson. The 1 2 […]
I recorded the session of my Patterns & Games class at The Coalition Theater in which we tackled the My 3 Rules game I've previously presented as a warm-up. One, the camera's distance makes it hard for the viewer to really track the game in play. Two, oh, man, looking for a drinking game? Watch […]
Watch this. Keep watching. Wait for it. Stay with it. There it is. [wpvideo RW9h0Kis] Following the simplest pattern saves the day. And gets a nice big laugh.
Oh, man, this organic group game made me laugh. It's simple and fun. All Chapman has to do accept each addition with his character's garbled, "That's my thing..." The audience loves him for it! They know he's getting put upon by his fellow players (literally by the end!) and they reward his acceptance and commitment […]
Check out this fun, loose Hey Everybody game from The Coalition's Detective. [wpvideo SreYQCIv] The team isn't behold to the sequence of contributions - they allow their characters to react in-the-moment as inspired - but you can see the sequence is loosely maintained and it helps the overall flow. Improvisers clearly stick their character's silos […]
Detective, a house team at The Coalition Theater, created an Opening inspired by this scene from Black Dynamite where wild associative leaps serve to solve a crime. [wpvideo 2f2vbo0R] The Opening generates a lot of Details for them to inspire future scenes. The big jumps showcase individual's humor and building on one another showcases their […]
Gretchen Glaeser introduced me to Zane Adickes' "Damn, they call it like they see it!" warm-up tonight. And, well, I see it as a damn fine warm-up. Looking for an activity to practice individual silo-building through an emotional perspective as well as the pacing between individual contributions and group agreement? Try "They call it like […]
Like the 5 Things warm-up? You'll love this one. Or so you will if you're like I was when exposed to this warm-up tonight by Matt Newman. Looking for a nice in-your-head out-of-your-head patterns-on-patterns warm-up?
Whatever we have to say on an improv stage can be spun into gold with enthusiastic agreement. So we shouldn't feel like we have to deliver some killer creative line to start a scene. We should remember, in fact, that what we bring authenticity - what we care about - however mundane - is rich […]
This was my favorite Organic game from my Spring 2018 Patterns & Games Class. There's just so much to love. This one could never be rewritten as a sketch, and that's an asset to me here. [wpvideo AGWOBpmT] It was born collaboratively in-the-moment with an ending no one set out to see but felt too entirely perfect […]