The Impro Tern

Commitment does not necessarily mean being very very angry, for example. It can mean being a little bit angry, but really really being a little bit angry. #improv #impro

If you're not looking for the sublime, what are you doing? #impro #improv

Funny is about taking your inability to do things and putting it on the stage, instead of keeping it pent-up within you. #improv #impro

If you feel you can't do funny, do beautiful, and then the comedy will come anyway. #improv #impro

The ideas of impro are the little legs your caterpillar uses to move across its leaf. #impro #improv

Rules exist to enable you to communicate with the audience. Not the other way round. #Improv #Impro

Impro teaches you that you can't be a playwright. This is something playwrights could learn. #Impro #Improv

Impro is not about rules. It's about what happens when you break a rule. #Impro #Improv

It's about being on the edge of your comfort zone. The aim is to widen your comfort zone. #Impro #Improv

Be stupid and ugly. #Impro #Improv

The choice is always whether to be changed or not be changed. #Improv #Impro

Reincorporation: you don't have to connect everything. Anything you do connect is an unexpected bonus. #Improv #Impro

Don't just get it wrong. Get it so wrong it becomes yours. #Improv #Impro

If you are playful, you can really get away with anything. #Improv #Impro

Yes isn't a word, it's an action. #Impro #Improv

We fear making mistakes because we don't want to have to face how much more we have got wrong than we currently realise. #Improv #Impro

A B-movie is a movie that follows all the rules of its genre.

Find a rule to follow, or a rule to break. #Impro #Improv

2. To believe in the moment you are in regardless of judgment. #Improv #Impro