Muprov Musings: Exceptionally Average Improv

At the far reaches of the possible, A New Play, is unlike any other improvised piece of theater. In this first episode we break down the vision for creating the show, and the ways in which we dreamed of expanding the the art form of improvisation. If you also have the dream of elevating improvisation into the realm of theater, tune in to this season to see how we tackled each problem and made this dream a reality!

Check out the visuals here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=861yDZ1jwwk&t=186s 

Apologies to the Brave Little Toaster, which, as it turns out, was a book. 

Everyone's favorite award show :0

This one is a little self indulgent, but was delightful to make! Congrats to everyone who won a Mu-ie this year! 

Thanks to Limited Resources for inspiring this episode (and honestly the whole podcast) 

Also, I realized we missed the Tesuji of using the delayed Tesuji point to bring it to a tie... That is why it is such an important concept.

Goodbye Slasher, Hello reflections on what we learned! 

This show is fantastic! Improv people always warn you not to do transaction scenes but they don't give you the gory details about can happen if you don't follow their advice ;). The show starts out as a sort of normal silly improv show about pickles and arcs into something intense and amazing! Hal and Julian both think that it is the best audio show that we have done so far and if you make it to the end you will see why. A great lesson in breaking the form and the perfect finale to our Slasher season! 

Happy Holidays! A few days late but just in time to put our latest slasher into your Christmas Stocking. Gather round the fire and listen to our radio play, Azurite. 

Full slasher example #1. This one paced like the movies that we have been watching so it is a little longer than our normal shows! Gets pretty crazy once the action starts... We will have another full show next week!

Our GIGAspine episodes talk though all the thought processes that go into the narrative choices of a complete show! We think that this is one of the best ways to get insights into how you and you teammates actually make decisions, and to build up that skill separately from the actual improv.

New slasher episode on when/how to break the form in improv. Julian sings a song in this one!

On this episode we break down the plots of five slasher movies to create heat maps of the kills, and strengthen our understanding of narrative timing!

We learned a lot making this and are excited to begin experimenting with the new principles! 

In order to do a Slasher you must first learn to be a Slasher! I think that the second half of this episode when we talk about the slasher ordeal is really useful if you want to skip ahead to it!