19th
Guest Writer: Remy Bertrand (London)
Remy Bertrand runs imprology, a London-based training company and Friendly Fire, a performing group using physical, musical and verbal improvisation.
Mirrors and status, let’s all be friends.
There is a great divide in improvisation between comedy and, well… non-comedy. Lets mend the rift because we’re all brothers and sisters after all, or at least cousins, or maybe our mums used to shop at the same store. I’m doing my bit here to reconcile two staple games on the opposite corners of the ring in an attempt to show that status games and mirroring games are very similar in nature, even though one is more often played by the wordy, all in the brain, comedic brigade and the other by lovely arty people who would never ever dream of gagging on stage. Both games require players to be completely focused on each other. If the rules are different, the skills being developed are almost identical and I will prove it now. So wish me luck.
