Your Work Will Decide

Are you becoming obsolete, or are you becoming a classic?

Your work will decide.

-- doug smith

 

Scene Prompt: The Truth

Scene Prompt:

Build a scene based on the following quote, without ever saying the quote:

Even when our words lie our spirits tell the truth. 

Creative Trust

How's your creative impulse?

Do you roll with it, or resist it?

Do you chase it, or embrace it?

If you don't trust the creative impulse it might stop trusting you.

Where will you be then?

Trust your creative impulse.

-- doug smith

 

Something Creative

Do something creative 

every day

and feel how much wonder

comes your way.

-- doug smith

Attention Optimized

 

How is your attention? How is your focus?

Doing improv brings people to their full attentiveness, because without that you're lost. As Paul Sills taught me, that attentiveness and that improv work best when you get out of your head, when you "stop playwriting" and give the moment all you've got.

It's powerful. It's wonderful. It's ever so real. 

Great improv keeps us in the present. The past is too boring to play and the future is up for grabs so we must live every present moment tuned in, generating ideas, and sharing responsibility. Improv is life’s attentiveness optimized.

— doug smith

Quote Prompt: Opportunity

Topic: Improv 

Goal: Create a new and amusing scene using a quote.

Prompt: Use this quote to prompt your improvisation: 

Life is opportunity. What we believe can uncover -- or cover over that opportunity. What you believe is up to you.

Coaching:

• Create distinctions in the characters.
• Who sees opportunity in the darkest situations?
• What kind of situation are you creating?
• In the improv, find problems that you can solve together.
• Try turning conflict into collaboration.

 

Here We Are

Here we are -- until we go someplace else.

That is always up to you.

Improvise a new direction. Imagine a better beginning. Plan a wonderful close.

Go, go, go!

Here we are -- until we go someplace else.

-- doug smith