I always start my styles classes with a reminder that we are always improvising in a style. Both individually and as a group. Most Western ...
Narrative/Plot/Story: Applying It To Improvisation
In Part I, we defined Narrative, Plot and Story. In Part II, we explored the ways that an audience builds that story while experiencing that ...
Narrative/Plot/Story: An Example
In Part I, we defined narrative, plot and story. Let's explore these in an example. Allow me to tell you a story: Tuyen saw Jackie on the ...
Narrative/Plot/Story: The Basics
In my Big List of Questions for style research, there is an entire section on plot, narrative, and story. As humans, we have an innate and natural ...
Styles Research: A Big List of Questions
When I direct a show in a style or genre, I find it’s really important to develop a strong sense of WHY. For example, knowing that both film and time ...
Fifteen Years Of Audience Suggested Movie Genres
Yesterday, I posted playwrights which I've gotten over the last fifteen years. Today, I have a list of movie genres I've gotten from an audience ...
15 Years of Audience Suggested Playwrights
Unexpected Productions' A(n Improvised) Christmas Carol is coming up, a show in which both the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas ...
Why Study Genre and Style?
Do styles put you in your head? Or do they feel like too much icing and not enough cake? Outside of performing in genre or style: Do you sometimes ...
