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Tag Archives: Talking Heads

“W” is for “Wimping”

Some alternatives to wimping.

Posted byimprovdrApril 17, 2023October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Commandments, Postponing, Talking Heads, To Make Matters Worse, W is for, Waffling, WimpingLeave a comment on “W” is for “Wimping”

“W” is for “Waffling”

Five examples of wafflers that might show up in your scenes and slow things down…

Posted byimprovdrMarch 27, 2023October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Bulldozing, Postponing, Talking Heads, Waffling, WimpingLeave a comment on “W” is for “Waffling”

“U” is for “Urgency”

You urgently need to read this post if your scenes routinely lack any sense of dynamism.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 27, 2023October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Drama, Energy, Long-Form, Rug Pull, Short-Form, Stakes, Talking Heads, Time, U is for, UrgencyLeave a comment on “U” is for “Urgency”

“T” is for “Teaching Scene”

A few choice lessons concerning “Teaching Scenes.”

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 2, 2023October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:CAD, CROW, Game of the Scene, Long-Form, Mapping, Relationship, Short-Form, T is for, Talking Heads, Teaching Scene, Transaction SceneLeave a comment on “T” is for “Teaching Scene”

Game Library: “Contact”

Few games demand such an “outside the box” approach to onstage physicality as “Contact” or “Touch to Talk.”

Posted byimprovdrDecember 30, 2022October 15, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Contact, Justification, Physicality, Stage Picture, Staging, Talking Heads, Touch to TalkLeave a comment on Game Library: “Contact”

“T” is for “Talking Heads”

Four possible “adds” to elevate your scene beyond a strictly “talking heads” affair.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 26, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Physicality, Stage Picture, T is for, Talking Heads, WafflingLeave a comment on “T” is for “Talking Heads”

“P” is for “Physicality”

Bring some added oomph to your characters with these tactics designed to increase the level of your physicality.

Posted byimprovdrMay 2, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Character, Characterization, Essence, Movement, P is for, Parallel Action, Physicality, Showing, Specificity, Talking HeadsLeave a comment on “P” is for “Physicality”

Commandment #6

Waffling isn’t just a city in Belgium…

Posted byimprovdrJuly 27, 2020October 21, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Chatterbox, Commandments, Physicality, Sentences, Talking Heads, Verbal Skills, Waffling, WimpingLeave a comment on Commandment #6
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