Fun with IMPROV

Theater is hard work.

Know this. Theater is hard. It’s a lot of work. You have to reach inside of yourself and pull out emotions and energy and drive and make it seem real to the audience. All while learning lines, reacting to other actors’ lines, moving how you’re supposed to on the stage, and any other stage business you may have.

And comedic theater? You want to talk about hard?

Making a group of strangers laugh with a performance by delivering a line with just the right timing without it seeming phony or forced is an art unto itself. What people find funny is incredibly subjective for each person. One thing may make one group of people laugh, and the same joke may offend another group of people. It’s a touchy thing, comedy.

And then there’s Improv!

Think comedic theater is hard? Now we’re going to take away your script. You can’t even rely upon the writing of playwrights who have spent countless hours working on a script, picking apart every line to make it the best line they can write. Not only do you now have to make things up, but also you have to make them up on the spot, in front of a theater full of strangers who are feeding you ideas.

That’s incredibly difficult. But for the brave performers who choose to do it, it can also be incredibly rewarding. source