Framing, Justifying, and Heightening Your Improv Scenes

In this improv class we will first learn how to pull a scene idea from a monologue and initiate our comedic idea or premise in the simplest, and most efficient way to get to the game (the unusual comedic pattern of behavior aka "what's funny" in the scene.) We will then learn to respond to the initiating by framing the unusual behavior. We will then learn how to justify this behavior so that the scene makes sense and the audience knows why it is happening. Then we will learn how to heighten the game in fun, unexpected ways through character, environment, exploration, physicality, and most of all: listening and speaking directly to the last thing that was said. The form we'll us to learn this is The Armando (or the Assscat form) and two person scene exercises.