Blanche’s Improv Journal
The thoughts about Improv that keep Blanche up at night
Shakespeare invented scene painting
Improv has been relegated to the dorky corner of the arts world. But improv has more in common with Shakespeare (probably the most uppity kind of theatre) than many literary scholars would have us believe. The lineage from Commedia dell'arte to Shakespeare, through to modern improv comedy is clear in an academic sense, but it’s also true that we can look to Shakespeare for pragmatic help in how we play today.

Ideas are fairies anyway
Ideas are like fairies flitting about and sometimes you are blessed and they come and land on your shoulder and sweetly whisper in your ear: Step out and say ‘Insert perfect line of dialogue here.’