Narrative Improv or How I Learned to Stop Trying and Love Story

For a long time, no one thought narrative improv could be done. We believe that it can’t be avoided. When improvisers stop themselves from telling stories, they debilitate their own humanity. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to tell a good story. There are strategies for improvising compelling stories that can help ensure that your stories actually look like stories. We share key exercises with you that will help you string your scenes together in a narrative way and make narrative choices with your characters and Game moves. Doing narrative improv usually means looking for meaningful connections as opposed to funny connections, so we’ll point out ways that you can play Game and find the funny as you take aim at a narrative target. Drawing from his published research on narrative inquiry, Nicholas will give you ways to think about improvised stories make some of the freshest philosophical ideas simple to grasp and even more fun to play. For players with long form stage experience.