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Advanced Improvisation: Game of the Scene — DRA4380.01

Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

This course is an in-depth exploration of improvised comedy scene work, with a central focus on finding and playing “Game.” Game is loosely defined as a pattern of unusual behavior that breaks from the pattern of your everyday life. In other words, Game is what's funny about your scene.

To play Game in a long-form scene, you’ll learn to answer three key questions:

  • What is the situation?

  • What is the first unusual thing?

  • If this is true, then what else is true?

Coming of Age: The Open Road — DRA2384.01

Instructor: Jean Randich
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

Coming of Age: The Open Road

I inhale great draughts of space,

The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.

 

I am larger, better than I thought,

I did not know I held so much goodness.