In learning Tertiary Moves an improv student is taught that "the first move is trump" (a reference to card games not our shitty president). In practice this means that if the first tertiary move is a Walk-on then the next tertiary move should also be a Walk-on to heighten the game at play. While there […]
Not a super fan of a scene? Don't sweep it under the rug - you may want to forget about it but the audience may not be able to. Better then to double down on it. Use the Help Desk dynamic to heighten the interaction and turn a "not great" initial scene into the base […]
https://videos.files.wordpress.com/jcgR04oo/johnsons-and-detective-walk-on-off-w-split-screen_hd.mp4 Split Screen – To heighten a two-person scene, Player Three and Player Four initiate a new scene - on the same stage, but existing in separate physical spaces. For example, a scene about a married couple fretting over money can be heightened by a couple of mice fretting over cheese. These two (or more) separate […]