Since I last reported in, we had a great show, another great class, and tonight, a really good show. Maybe not as kick-ass as last week. We were down to 8, and played in groups of 4, which was a stellar size. Just perfect. Loved my group...we seemed to bring out the best in each other. I felt much more confident, though I didn't make a ton of initiations. It was more like I always knew what to do with what was given, and had no doubts.
I really feel like being in class at the same time as the show is making a huge difference for my play. We worked on heightening in two-person scenes this week, and I have to say, I nailed it. Strangely enough, and surprisingly, several of my classmates had a rough time with some of the exercises tonight, but everyone seemed to make progress. We also did a round of Slackers, which I love, and again, seemed to flummox some really good players. At any rate, I really think that class helped propel my play in the show tonight.
I have never felt as confident on an improv stage as I did tonight. I was playing ballsy, and making lots of initiations, and they were getting picked up and deepened and heightened all over the place. I really had fun. We had a workplace romance that evolved into striking workers, a serial killer on trial, credit problems, friends who didn't agree on the place of women...it was totally fun. Several people commented on one of my lines, which got a very gratifying laugh. It was something to the effect of (after being told by my friend that women shouldn't work, they should just live off of men) "What must you think of me, with my job at the rope factory? You must think of me as so common!" Not as significant out of context, but my favorite line of mine.
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