IMPROV THEATER

What is key to finding the game with in the game in a scene?

• Focusing on character interactions and always initiating the scene

• Finding ways as a player to ask questions that give information

• Identifying the first unusual thing, develop a pattern and heighten

• Initiating a scene with non-verbal choices using space work as the premise

The following are names of established long form formats or structures.

• Armando, Franco, Forgo

• Funeral, The Escape, Die

• Armando, Harold, La Ronde

• The Harold,

  Arnold, The River

What is THE RUN in long from?

• A physical behavior used for characters to increase energy

• The final set of three scenes connects themes, characters, situations, and games from the whole piece.

• The entire show, from the start time to the end time of the show

• Providing clear and concise dialogue when performing any long form scene

What is an opener in Long form?

• Audience members that provide suggestions when asked by the host

• The host of the show

• used at the start of a Long Form gives the theme and generates ideas for scenes

• A prepared bit to loosen up the audience

A call back does NOT refer to a joke or premise that was previously told in the scenes

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The Harold is a "long-form" improv activity first developed in the 60s by theater director and teacher

The "Truth in Comedy" outlines techniques that are generally accepted in improvised theatre and describes the structure of the Harold. It was written by Charna Halpern and WHO?

• Kieth Johnstone

• Del Close

• Viola Spolin

• Harold Paine

__________was an actress, educator, director, author, and the creator of theater games, a system of actor training that uses games she devised to organically teach the formal rules of the theater

(basically invented short form improv)

Who was the first Improvisational Theatre in America?

• iO

• Compass Players

• Second City

• Chicago Players

The Second City is an improvisational and sketch comedy enterprise that is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago.

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