Breaking the Plane – Players define where their characters are in relation to each other by choosing where to “look” for that character. Using this ability, there are so many different cool ways for us to fracture our improv stage - enabling new heights, depths, distances, and other spatial relationships. For example, in a baseball scene, […]
Objective: When we see, touch, smell and REACT to our environment, the audience can, too. If nothing else, be deliberate - your commitment to engaging the environment will enable the audience to accept any weird ass thing you do.
Focusing Stage Picture: Staging an environment in a group game breeds potential complications as players abandon pattern for roles and over-prioritize explaining who they are and what they’re doing. But attention to the elements of stage picture can help focus a group scene and facilitate quick collaborative heightening. Suggested Exercises: STAGE PICTURE TABLEAUS – One […]
Pivot (Swivel/Barn Door) – Rather than Tag Out and Tag Back In, the Pivot allows two scenes to happen without players having to leave stage. For example, Player 1 is telling Player 2 all about his success in last night’s date. Player 3 enters stage on the other side of Player 1 from Player 2 to […]