This post breaks deconstruction (aka Armando which seems like a silly name when you don’t have the context and even sillier when you do) into two ways to make pulls from the Monologist (the Armando). First, choose how close you want to stay to the monologue: Primary, Tangent, or Abstract …
SCENE MAPPING
Scene mapping can be a great tool for improvisers, but it’s hard to get your head around at first. To map a scene is to take each beat of the scene we have first seen, and use it in a new scene and in a new context. It might mean …
THE PATTERN GAME. Finding Comedic premises
Using word association to make unexpected connections for jokes. The Pattern Game is an improvisation exercise that trains you to find unexpected connections and loop back to your premise—essential skills for both improvisers finding the game of a scene and standup comedians mining a bit for multiple punchlines. How it …