This week’s drop-in: Super Agreement
Brought to you by Richard.
So there is an improviser named Katy Schutte (author of a great book called The Improviser’s Way: A Longform Workbook) who wrote about the improv phenomenon of pimping as follows:
“When we ask someone to ‘read that poem you’ve been working on’ or ‘do that dance’ we call it Pimping. Pimping is making someone do something they are likely uncomfortable with for the audience to enjoy.”
It can be hilarious, but it’s not necessarily the best way to interact with our scene partners (though knowing someone can, and will, deliver a fresh limerick on demand is spectacular). There is more to a scene than getting laughs for awkward challenges. There are other and kinder ways to offer opportunities to our team mates.
So for this drop in I want to play with how we give offers and how we receive them. It will be forced to begin with, opening up to let people do what they want as things go on.
7.30 – 9.30pm | £5 / 3 concessions
The Malt Cross (downstairs in the workshop) | 16 St James’s St | Nottingham | NG1 6FG
