Improvisation Requires:

• Quick thinking

• Creativity

• Focus

• Communication

• How to read others on stage

Improvisation Requires:

• Quick thinking

• Creativity

• Focus

• Communication

• How to read others on stage

• "Exposition": Who, where, when, and while

• First player has to give as much information as possible

• Inciting incident or introduction of the problem

Beginning

Plot: A Beginning, a Middle, & an Ending

Plot: A Beginning, a Middle, & an Ending

Middle

• Rising Action -- leads up to some crisis

• Each "crisis" is followed by a reduction in intensity, also known as falling action

End

• Final crisis: moment of greatest dramatic intensity, also called the climax

• Some improvs will offer a resolution and tie up loose ends: denouement