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Entries from August 2006

Caught in the Act, August 19

August 7th, 2006 · No Comments

It’s official. Caught in the Act will have a show on Saturday, August 19. It’ll be our usual format, starting at 8:00 pm and lasting about an hour and a half. I don’t have a list of the players, yet. I’ll be putting up a page for the show and sending out an email announcement [...]

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Class August 2, 2006

August 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Pretty big class on Wednesday night with 16 people. Five were new to the class, and most of those came with no improv experience, so we had a night of good, basic work.
Andy grabbed the camera, so we have pictures from actual scene work from this workshop! This first one shows Jim and Allegra during [...]

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Another interesting exercise …

August 1st, 2006 · No Comments

Hmm, another interesting exercise from Bill Arnett at I.O. I really like the way he deconstructs improv and gets to nice little nuggets of improv insight.
In his short article, he talks about the tendency to overly focus on coming up with a funny line, rather than staying true to the character we are creating. The [...]

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