February 2012
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Montreal Improv House Team Auditions
Montreal Improv will be holding open-call auditions for our first-ever House Teams on Sunday, March 11th from 7-10pm and Monday March 12th from 6-9pm. Auditions will be held at Montreal Improv at 3713 St-Laurent, #202. Callbacks will be held on Tuesday, March 13th from 7-9pm and Wednesday, March 14th 7-9pm. Auditioners should have prior improv experience. Montreal Improv students won’t be...
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Guest Writer: Matt Folliott (Toronto)
Matt Folliott is an improviser with the Impatient Theatre Co., Standards & Practices, and has improvised across North America performing in the Out of Bounds comedy festival in Austin TX, The Vancouver International Improv Festival & The Del Close Marathon to name a few. Matt teaches at Second City and is also a regular instructor with Impatient Theatre. He’d like to thank his dad...
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THE SECOND CITY TORONTO GENERAL AUDITIONS 2012
The Second City Toronto is casting for understudies, touring performers and cruise ship actors. Auditions are by appointment only, and will be held Monday March 26 – Friday March 30, 2011. Information for all Applicants: Applicants should have a strong background in improvisation and/or sketch comedy. Generally, one year of training and/or performance experience is a minimum...
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Improv Scene Ideas: Volume Three
Here are a bunch of new scene suggestions. You can use them as starting points, scene titles, lines of dialogue, loose inspiration or take them literally. Go crazy.
No one believes me!
Those clothes are too revealing
I can’t hold my tongue any longer
The new secretary
Meeting two strangers
You have to pay the price
Never been to this part of town before
An unexpected guest
Watching...
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Bryan + Canal V = Séduction →
Check out this video of Bryan leading a couple on a blind date on some improv basics for a French reality show. (You may have to withstand a couple commercials.)
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Guest Writer: John Ratliff (Austin)
John Ratliff teaches improv at ColdTowne Theatre. He is a graduate of ColdTowne Conservatory and has trained at iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theatre. When he’s not performing, teaching, coaching, or discussing improv, Ratliff can be found editing copy, officiating weddings, eating some kind of Mexican breakfast, or lying on the floor listening to records.
My friend Michael Jastroch and I were...
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Dramatic Improv, part 3
[Part One] [Part Two]
Part of the hazard of doing dramatic or non-comedic improv is that it invariably uses the word “improv”. (Aside: I actually dislike the this term I’ve been using: “Dramatic Improv”, but I started with it so let’s finish with it.) For the general public, improv (if they’ve even heard the word) means comedy. Doing an improvised show...
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Useful Lie: "Don't Ask Questions"
“Don’t ask questions” is one of those supposed improv rules that has a good reason behind it but I would never just say that in a class I’m teaching and leave it as is. If improv is to reflect our reality in any way, questions must exist. We all ask questions in day to day life and so onstage, we must be able to ask questions. But there’s a kind of question that...
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Montreal Improv Comedy Shows Feb. 16-18
Thu, Feb. 16, 8pm — The Follow Up
with guests DeAnne Smith, Jess Salomon & Zoe Daniels
Take four comedians. Add one host with a stack of index cards. Be inspired by UK panel trivia shows. Ask questions with true answers so ridiculous, no fiction could compare. Give points for being right (no chance) but give more points for cracking wise. Stir. This event is Pay What You Can.
Thu, Feb....
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Guest Writer: Jill Bernard (Minneapolis)
Jill Bernard has been performing with ComedySportz-Twin Cities since 1993, and is a founding member of HUGE Theater in Uptown Minneapolis. Her one-woman improv piece, Drum Machine, has been featured in over forty improv festivals. She has taught and performed improv in Norway, Canada, and over thirty of the United States; and also on an episode of MTV “Made.” She is one-half of the duo SCRAM with...
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Saturday Gazette profile of Kirsten →
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Dramatic Improv, part 2 →
mynerdyimprovblog:
I feel that saying “I want to do dramatic improv” is a useless thing to say because, well, what does it mean? What does that mean, do dramatic improv?
This is a good question because in last Friday’s post I didn’t really define what I think of as “dramatic improv”. I made an (unreasonable) assumption that most readers would be familiar with...
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Montreal Improv Comedy Shows: Feb. 9-11
Thu, Feb. 9, 8pm — The Brat Makes a Scene
The Brat is back! After a holiday spent throwing tantrums, hissy fits, and generally getting their way, enfants terribles Bryan Walsh and Pat Dussault return to the Montreal Improv Theatre for another night of interconnected, completely improvised stories about the events, people, and experiences that make up the crazy, magnificent bastard that is...
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Guest Writer: Andrea Del Campo (Toronto)
Andrea del Campo is a stage and screen actor, and one sixth of Canadian musical improv sensation, Outside Joke. The company formed in 2002 and has performed in festivals across the country, including twice at the Montreal Improv Festival. They will be appearing at the 2012 Regina and Winnipeg Fringes.
Guys, today I’d like to talk about something essential to long-time improvisation:...
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Mick Napier's Directing Workshop will be streamed... →
Pretty cool! Mick Napier’s Directing workshop will be streamed online. He’s a co-founder of The Annoyance theatre in Chicago and author of “Improvise!” If you can catch it tomorrow, please do so.
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Dramatic Improv
Warning: this is a rambly, introspective examination of my thoughts on dramatic improv. I’m writing this primarily to straighten out my brain wiggles but maybe it will be useful to someone. Maybe not. Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here.
I started out doing improv in comedy bars- Wait, scratch that. I started out doing improv at a university club, McGill Improv. Then I moved to comedy bars....
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Bilingual improv show looking for people →
Tu aimerais faire des matchs d’improvisation français-anglais? Bien voilà ta chance! Une nouvelle soirée d’impro bilingue sera disponible pour toi les mercredis soir, 20h. Nous sommes à la recherche de 16 joueurs bilingues disponibles et dynamiques avec un minimum de 5 ans d’expérience pour s’amuser avec nous… Inscriptions : Envoie ton historique d’impro...