Archive for the ‘Improv Technique’ Category
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The Del Close Improv Marathon
August 20th, 2009 3 Comments
This past weekend I was in New York City for the 11th Annual Del Close Improv Marathon at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre. It was 72 hours round the clock of “long form” improv presented at five different venues
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The Power of Mistakes
February 11th, 2009 No Comments
Mistakes are the improviser’s friend. They are not bad. They are not just another chance to beat your self up. Mistakes are opportunities for discovery. Playing the mistake, making something out of it, can be a great moment in an improv. When you make a mistake, the audience laughs. Play the laugh. [...]
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On Listening
May 25th, 2008 No Comments
The ability to listen is the most important tool in the improviser’s toolbox. This has been said in one way or another so often that it seems to be a cliché as well as common knowledge. The assumption usually goes that it refers to listening to the other player so that you can take his [...]
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Agreement & Conflict in Improv
March 13th, 2008 No Comments
It has always baffled me why so many people who come to my improvisation workshops have such a hard time grasping the concept of playing “agreement” instead of “conflict”. Part of it is, if they come from a traditional theater background, they don’t quite get how theater can be done without conflict. But a lot [...]
