improvisation = relationship

WARNING: this is a very lame assimilation attempt!!! i haven’t eaten anything!!!

I am writing this as a reminder to myself that what I have right now is just BORROWED. (don’t give me the religious crap. It’s not that)

I am currently in a RELATIONSHIP (I hate using the word) where I play the role of a third party. A couple of friends already told me that I should get out of this while I still can. I am known for my stubbornness in almost about everything. but dear friends, I can handle this. I don’t want to be a hypocrite and announce that I am not expecting more out of this. but I did all the necessary preparation.

warm-up. I have gone through a series of warm-up exercises for this. I reviewed books, blogs, articles written about playing this role. i know it’s not enough, but this is not the first time that I will be playing a role similar to this. so I also drew past experiences and ponder on them. picked the correct emotions that will be useful.

characterization – like I said, this isn’t the first time, so the characterization is not that hard. believe it or not I even used the “facing the mirror” technique to check if the character that I will be playing looks good or not.

the show – the curtain is already up. the show has started. and as an actor (which had training on improvisational acting) we all know the rules, here’s some:

1. accept – accept everything that is being thrown at you
2. NO is a forbidden word – if you say NO, you play solo
3. proposal – build on what was given, propose new things in reference to…
4. play – choose a character. act and react as this character

we are still in the first few scenes of the show.

we still don’t know how this improvisation will go…

but I will play along. i’ll try to remember everything I learned about improvisation.