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The Living Room
The Living Room format involves performers sitting down and having a casual conversation inspired by a suggestion. Scenes are then created based on the topics and themes that emerge from this conversation.
The Musical
The Musical improv format includes scenes that incorporate singing and dancing, similar to a traditional musical theater production, all of which are created spontaneously.
The Harold
The Harold is a long-form improv structure that consists of an opening, three separate scenes, a group game, another set of three scenes, another group game, and a final set of three scenes that connects everything together.
The Deconstruction
The Deconstruction involves taking a single scene and exploring its themes and relationships further through subsequent scenes, which delve deeper into the characters' backgrounds and motivations.
The Soap Opera
This long-form is styled after a soap opera, with exaggerated characters, dramatic plot twists, and cliffhangers. The format typically builds upon the relationships and strife between characters.
The Narrative
This long-form structure focuses on storytelling, with the goal of creating a cohesive narrative, often with a clear beginning, middle, and end, similar to a short play or movie.
The Armando
The Armando, also known as the Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience and Hootenanny, involves a monologist who shares personal stories that inspire the scenes acted out by the improv troupe.
The Monoscene
The Monoscene is performed in a single location and in real time, creating a slice-of-life scene that unfolds without cuts or changes in place.
The Fishbowl
In the Fishbowl, audience members write down scene ideas or prompts and place them into a 'fishbowl'. Performers draw these prompts randomly and create scenes on the fly based on what they draw.
The Time Dash
The Time Dash involves performing scenes that jump forward or backward in time, offering different perspectives and contexts to the characters' lives or the story's development.
The Spokane
The Spokane, or 'Pretty Flower', starts with a central strong scene, known as the base scene, and then explores tangent scenes that are related to it, eventually returning to the central scene.
The Bat
Performed entirely in the dark, The Bat relies on audio storytelling and dialogue, allowing performers and audience to engage in improv theater through sound alone.
The Evente
The Evente format involves improvisers portraying a singular event from multiple perspectives, exploring the different storylines and characters involved in the event.
The La Ronde
The La Ronde is an improv format where each scene involves two characters, and one character from each scene returns in the next scene with a new character, forming a 'round' of characters and scenes.
The Documentary
This format involves performers creating an improvised documentary, which can include interviews, narration, and various scene work that mimics the style of a documentary film.
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