https://fortheloveofimprov.com/ Adults Playing Pretend Wed, 02 Mar 2022 05:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 https://fortheloveofimprov.com/2019/09/28/tim-mahoney/#comment-1 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:55:51 +0000 http://fortheloveofimprov.com/?p=342#comment-1 Jesi or Kaie ,get with me to discuss this with me please. One of the things I hear a lot are that you have to know the rules of improv in order to break them. I see a lot of stuff happening in Improv it is basically just people always breaking the rules. Is it really that flexible that there is the ability to break rules at all time? I think the question I’m asking here is about where you go and how to break the rules properly. For example, I saw a scene playing out, where the people were floundering, I thought to add something to help out, and someone else had the same idea at the same time. Their’s was a cut to edit, and mine would have been a walk-on. When the scene actually went forward with the cut to and the existing actors did not have a problem, I did not go out with my offering. When I mentioned this to someone else, the entire group of people looked at me like I was batshit crazy for not having gone on with an offering. My thought on it was they were in a scene I didn’t need to interrupt their scene with something that wasn’t necessary. But really it was weird having people look at me like I should have going on no matter what even though it wasn’t going to help the scene out any it was just going to interrupt them when they had started getting a flow the two people on stage. I guess the question continues as Was I just supposed to do what I thought up and not care about what was going on stage? I really thought improv was supposed to be supportive, but I see people put on their oxygen mask first when they are still in the TSA line. Not than it ruins a scene, but if it complicates it or steals stage time from the people on stage, then is it really supportive, and how do you know the difference?

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