by DuncanMKZ | May 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s said that “acting is reacting.” It means that the key to being a good actor or improviser is mostly about how well you react emotionally to each thing another performer says or does. When a line is delivered well by an actor, it makes an impact on an audience....
by DuncanMKZ | Apr 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Once a players has entered a scene, it’s hard to leave again. Improv scenes often accumulate more and more characters. That’s the “sticky stage” phenomenon, and it makes it harder to tell a story. Let’s say Jean works in a factory with coworker Sandra. Sandra is...
by DuncanMKZ | Apr 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Many performers who can happily play big characters in a scene become awkward and uncomfortable when they have to talk to an audience. Sometimes, a shift in attitude can help. When I was a kid, a man named Jack Hargreaves was a familiar face on British TV, usually...
by DuncanMKZ | May 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of the traps you can fall into with improv is trying to create a final, once-and-for-all list of improv games. I had one friend who compiled hundreds of games into a fat binder, and was constantly reworking and updating his ultimate improv opus. He died before it...
