#improvised Shakespeare

[littlebirdy0301]

Ross Bryant in an improvised storyline be like “I WILL romance a character and I WILL tenderly touch their arm and I WILL take their hands & look lovingly into their eyes”

[oceaninwinter]

My mom and I went to our first Improvised Shakespeare show last night and it was everything we could have wanted and more! These gentlemen were hilarious and I'm glad I got to say hi and thank them for such an amazing night! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard during a show! If you're in or near LA and you haven't seen them yet, you GOTTA check them out!

Also as a huge Hello from the Magic Tavern fan, it was awesome seeing a bunch of my favs all onstage together! 😁 These guys are brilliant in everything they do! Can't wait to go to the show again and hopefully hear them all return to Foon sometime! 😊

[amagnificentobsession]

I only want you to focus on the first 2:30 of this video. I have Completely Staged. The Complete Illustrated Scripts (it’s wonderful btw).

David introduces the idea of “sabotage” to Michael, and that is where this section of the script ends in the book.

From :38 -2:29 the whole conversation about Michael’s dad, the playing catch (or throw) David talking about doing the same thing to their dog, all of it IS NOT IN THIS BOOK. I searched everywhere looking for the possibility that maybe it was accidentally printed in a different area, a footnote that it was “accidentally left out, a printing accident?”

But a WHOLE conversation, an important one to the storyline? Therefore I have to go with its improv. And this is the lead up to this absolute iconic connection:

And David is the one in control of it ♥️ look at that twinkle…….🤩

Say what you will, the fire between these two burns brighter than the hellfire Gabriel tried using to destroy Aziraphale. 🔥

The first time/photo of them together as the pandemic is winding down. Social distancing my ass! It wasn’t going to happen. ♥️✨

Palm to palm may be holy palmers kiss, but shoulder to shoulder will start a fire as well. 🔥

[youling-the-ghost]

If I had a nickel for every time I became attached to a British guy who's quite tall and whose name is Tom, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[rovermcfly]

please, I just wanna see improvised Shakespeare comedy

[neighbourhoodtwo]

hand practice w/ act 4 scene 3

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

been thinking about a less serious totally campy 2000-2010s teen movie adaptation of Hamlet in my spare time (female lead Hamlet and not word-for-word... bite me) after listening to Nirvana's Nevermind on repeat and it was all coming together up until Act 3 Scene 2: The Mousetrap.

Now this one's an interesting one, as seeing as there aren't many travelling actor troupes around these days, often modern takes tend to modernise this performance, with Ethan Hawke's Hamlet utilising the art of indie film and perhaps my all-time favourite take on it, Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be A Choosable Adventure Book that has Claudius play a Choose Your Own Adventure book within the Choose Your Own Adventure book (spoiler alert- he chooses the kill-your-brother path). In this way I am a fan of when the play-within-a-play is changed to suit the medium of adaptation, but I wasn't really feeling a movie for the characterisation vibes I was going for.

Until I had possibly the greatest idea ever. While travelling theatre troupes that perform edited renditions of well known plays just out and about are less common, there's another and often more mobile theatre form, close to my heart, that could be utilised to fit this scene well: comedy improv.

Hamlet, hearing word her old theatre group is back in town, inviting her mother and uncle along to an improv night, with a secret plan to reveal her uncle's guilt through the art of theatresports.

It'll probably go either one of two ways: she pulls aside her old teammate, asks for a favour- she knows that it's improv, and the whole point is that it's Not planned ahead, but if just this once she could get a certain scene to play out in front of her parents. and while reluctant, they agree, and on the night, announce a game of New Choice, asking Hamlet to be their caller.

It goes a little something like this:

'I shall now pour the deadly poison down his throat-'

'New Choice!'

'Into his eyes-'

'New Choice!'

'Into his ears!'

'Wow, that's crazy. Poisoned by his own brother. Would be a real shame if he were to go and marry his wife now, wouldn't it be, Claudius?'

Alternatively, instead of asking to rig a game (which is a cardinal sin anyway), Hamlet asks if she can join them for a special round, like old times. She offers to write for a game of Typewriter. Her teammate agrees, then jokingly implies that she's grown rusty, asking if she remembers the most important rule of improv. Rolling her eyes, of course she remembers to yes-and, she says.

She does not yes-and.

She flat out refuses the first two offers from the audience on the ask of 'interesting relationship between two people' until her plant Horatio eventually pipes up with 'wife and brother-in-law', she prefaces her scene with a lengthy disclaimer that it may cover some morbid topics but they shouldn't bother anyone (unless they have something to hide), and proceeds to run the scene with an iron fist, shutting down any offers that don't suit her purpose. Her teammate is making plans to chew her out afterwards when she shuts down their fifth offer to do ANYTHING but keep talking about how great a wife they are and how much they're not going to cheat etc etc. Eventually they get somewhere, and someone's getting poisoned, but then a bell rings and they get the '30 seconds, wrap it up' (about time, the pacing's gone to shit). but instead of wrapping it up in any manner that might salvage the scene, Hamlet takes it as an invitation to suddenly start typing quicker than normal, like she HAS to get all these words out before her time is up, and is ignoring everyone to go on this tangent about the king's death and how the brother takes the throne and she's just started to talk about how he marries the late king's wife (bit weird innit) when her uncle stands up and storms out of the room.

Anyway it would just be fun, methinks.

[goblinchivalry]

Game Changer's newest episode astounds

with Shakespeare's rhymes and improv's peerless wit!

Mu expectations dashed by leaps and bounds!

In other words, my friends, you MUST watch it!

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

a game most changed shifted something in me its impossibly good

[transmasc-nightwing]

How is every episode of Game Changer so good? The TALENT in this show is INCREDIBLE

[natdrinkstea]

THE NEWEST GAME CHANGER. THEY MADE IT FOR ME. HOLY SHIT EVERYONE GET DROPOUT

[rabbitofnegativeeuphoria]

If I had a nickel for every actor called Joseph I fell in love with today, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[aquamonstra]

You know you're the BIGGEST FUCKING NERD when you're watching the All Shakespeare Um, Actually episode and SCREAM WITH EXCITEMENT at getting an obscure answer right 🎭

[writers-potion]

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[tenth-sentence]

For the teenagers attending sessions of Shakespeare in the Courts, there is no improvisation, no building scripts around their own lives.

"The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma" - Bessel van der Kolk

[family-on-6]

sometimes I forget that some of the game changer/msn contestants are still like relatively unknown actors and then I get so surprised when I see them other places

like what is ross bryant doing in the allergy medicine ad I keep getting recommended on youtube I thought he improvised shakespeare plays for a living??