Improvisation is a hit-or-miss art form. Depending on the nature of the necessary audience interaction and the talent of the performers, the results can range from brilliant to painful. There was a little of each last night, but the best moment happened when one performers managed to construct a hilarious rap song about his dead mother.
The nature of improv leads to absurd situations that would never occur in real life, so naturally I'm a fan of the form. In fact, Sylvia and I have even talked about pursuing improv as a hobby in the past, and the director's announcement that Rapid Fire Theatre holds improv workshops is certainly tempting. I used to be pretty good at it in junior high school...
There's your next New Year's resolution, and you never knew it. For sure try out one of those improv workshops! You would kill at it, kill, kill, kill, kill!
ReplyDeleteA company I worked for sent their management cadre to one of these things as a team-building exercise. They came out of it much meaner, though, definitely not funnier. I guess that's a bad example.