How Do You Learn Improv Rules And Structure?
If you’re interested in acting or developing your extemporaneous speaking skills, this will help you understand the three basic rules of improv acting and will show you how to put a scene together and build one yourself. Understand the first rule: the game. In any improv scene, there are three basics: the game, heightening, and editing. The first (and some argue, the most important) rule of improv is finding the game. The game can also be referred to as “the joke” of the scene, but calling it a mere “joke” can limit the possibilities of what the game might be. Here is a simple example: a man and woman start an improv scene. The woman says “Man, did I have a bad day.” The man gets excited and says, eagerly “Tell me all about it! I love hearing about absolute suffering!” This gets a laugh from the audience because it is not the expected response, and here we have found a game. The game is: this man derives an odd (and demonstrative) pleasure and glee from the suffering around him. Truly
