Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

The next Improvisational Comedy Show from the Santa Barbara Improv Workshop will be:

Date: Saturday October 3, 2009

Time: 8:00 pm until about 9:30 pm

Location: Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street (near Anapamu)

Price: $5 at the door

Bob, Brian, and Allegra are actively searching through the dump, which is their setting in this Counting Words scene. More photos in the album.

We began the night with warm ups that included our traditional 1 Word Story, then we moved on to our stage work. First was the Counting Words Scene. Then everyone did an Emotional List scene.

Our song for the night was the Irish Drinking Song and we finished with a 3 Line Drill.

No, I don’t require feats of physical prowess to participate in the Workshop. Here, Kathy has decided that “make a strong offer” in a 3-Line Drill wasn’t just a metaphor. You’ll find more photos from this night in our album.

After our warm ups, including the 1-Word Story, we did a 5-Letter Word scene as our first stage work. Next, everyone had a chance to work in a Stinky, Sexy, Silly scene.

We all sang an Irish Drinking Song, and then on to some advanced work. We started with a 3-Line Drill to get everyone prepared for open scene work. We did a couple of rounds of Montage to practice scene transitions and open scenes, and I must say that we need to practice more often.

My favorite line of the night:

Dad wants you to go home and have medication

The next Improvisational Comedy Show from the Santa Barbara Improv Workshop will be:

Date: Saturday September 5, 2009

Time: 8:00 pm until about 9:30 pm

Location: Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street (near Anapamu)

Price: $5 at the door

Here are Marley, Angela, Garret, Kathy, and Nancy from their Irish Drinking Song. We had several new players join us this night and you’ll find more photos in our album.

Our warm ups included the 1 Word Story, and our scene work began with ABCs. We moved on to Switch Dubbing and everyone had a chance to create their foreign film.

As pictured above, we all had a chance to sing the Irish Drinking Song. And after that, we ended the night with Entrances and Exits.

Allegra, Patrick, and Ben are in an Opera scene with Allegra translating. I like Ben’s high kick. There are more photos from the night in our album.

Our warm ups included Enemy Defender as well as the 1 Word Story. We started our scene work with the exercise Create Object to Speak. Then we did a set of Obsession scenes, which we’ve not done in quite awhile and needed to practice.

After the Irish Drinking Song we finished the night with Opera translation scenes.

My favorite (or at least the oddest) quote of the night:

You have peanuts all over this store.

Yeah, it gets lonely sometimes.

I was out of town (Comic-Con!) for this week’s workshop, but the lovely and talented Victoria stepped in and inspired the class. It sounds like there was some amazing physical work done, and once again I’m sorry that I miss the classes where there’s a substitute.

Thanks Victoria!

Despite appearances, I can assure you that Patrick did not eat Kathy while Mike watched. That’s about all I can be confident about, so for the rest of the night you’ll have to check out our album.

We started the night with warm ups including the 1 Word Story. Our stage work began with rounds of Mutant. We continued with Superhero and then 185. I’m glad we got a chance to work on 185, because it got better and better as the night went on.

After our sets of Irish Drinking Song, we moved on to Repeating Scene Changing Genre. We finished the night with rounds of Freeze Tag.

The next Improvisational Comedy Show from the Santa Barbara Improv Workshop will be:

Date: Saturday August 1, 2009

Time: 8:00 pm until about 9:30 pm

Location: Jefferson Hall, 1525 Santa Barbara Street (near Anapamu)

Price: $5 at the door

A fantastic picture of Scott and one of our new players (okay, I admit that I don’t have her name anywhere) in a Pillars scene. That’s actually my foot on the lower left corner of the picture. The rest of the workshop can be seen in our album for the week.

The night started with warm-ups, including Physical Offers and 1 Word Story. Then, we moved on to a Create and Use Environment exercise.

We did a complete rotation of Pillars followed by the Irish Drinking Song.

We ended the night with the 3 Line Drill.

My favorite quote from the night (and a great safety tip)

You can’t walk on Mars with slippers.