Surprised to see me here?
Not as surprised as I am to be here, believe me.
A background: This is being written probably quite a while in advance of when you are actually reading it. I am not yet an ‘improver’. I am not yet even sure that I will come close to being one. But I intend to get involved on some level. So this is it, this is my Improv Journal. From today and until the day this experiment comes to an end. I will be keeping track of my attempts to enter the improv world here.
Why?
Why now, after being a ‘random’ for two years or more?
Well. I need something to do. This may not be a good reason to try to get into Improv, but it’s a major one. I am bored with my life and I drink too much and I need to cut down drastically, and that means I need something to fill the gap.
Secondly, and I don’t want to sound sycophantic, but you guys here have inspired me. The strength of the love for what you do is amazing, and I want to be a part of something like that. I really do. I don’t think I have ever been in a community that is so passionate, so intelligent (OK, so sometimes a bit precious and defensive, but hey aren’t we all like that about the things we love?)
This is not going to be easy. I mean, even finding an entrance point is going to be tough, Improv isn’t exactly a big deal in the UK. If it’s not on ‘Who’s Line’ then we ain’t got a clue.
Put it this way, I wouldn’t be surprised if just through what I’ve learnt from you guys that I knew more about Long Form Improv than anyone within a fifty mile radius of where I am right now.
In fact, I doubt very much that I’ll be able to get into anything that isn’t straight ‘Who’s Line… ‘ type games. But hey ho, I’ll give it a bash.
I guess it takes the tension away, but as you’ve no doubt worked out, if you’re reading this, then I’m already in. Somehow, somewhere.
Not as surprised as I am to be here, believe me.
A background: This is being written probably quite a while in advance of when you are actually reading it. I am not yet an ‘improver’. I am not yet even sure that I will come close to being one. But I intend to get involved on some level. So this is it, this is my Improv Journal. From today and until the day this experiment comes to an end. I will be keeping track of my attempts to enter the improv world here.
Why?
Why now, after being a ‘random’ for two years or more?
Well. I need something to do. This may not be a good reason to try to get into Improv, but it’s a major one. I am bored with my life and I drink too much and I need to cut down drastically, and that means I need something to fill the gap.
Secondly, and I don’t want to sound sycophantic, but you guys here have inspired me. The strength of the love for what you do is amazing, and I want to be a part of something like that. I really do. I don’t think I have ever been in a community that is so passionate, so intelligent (OK, so sometimes a bit precious and defensive, but hey aren’t we all like that about the things we love?)
This is not going to be easy. I mean, even finding an entrance point is going to be tough, Improv isn’t exactly a big deal in the UK. If it’s not on ‘Who’s Line’ then we ain’t got a clue.
Put it this way, I wouldn’t be surprised if just through what I’ve learnt from you guys that I knew more about Long Form Improv than anyone within a fifty mile radius of where I am right now.
In fact, I doubt very much that I’ll be able to get into anything that isn’t straight ‘Who’s Line… ‘ type games. But hey ho, I’ll give it a bash.
I guess it takes the tension away, but as you’ve no doubt worked out, if you’re reading this, then I’m already in. Somehow, somewhere.