We have a winner.
Directed by Tim and Eric. I don’t like their material that much, but they’re style is great art.
Chatroulette Is New Age Theater
For those of you who don’t know, Chatroulette is similar to Omegle: a random chat room. You enter the room with a random, anonymous stranger, and you can chat with them. Chatroulette became famous for adding video.
You can chat with bored teenagers in their rooms at home, drunk college students, men without shirts on, Ben Folds, lonely girls.
Wait… Ben Folds?
Yes. Ben Folds opened Chatroulette, and played custom songs for the random people on the service… all in front of an audience at a concert.
This is a new type of theater, that may have been done before, where you move from room to room, and see a new type of performance. You can enter as a viewer OR a performer. What happens when 2 viewers come together? Is one forced to perform? Or what happens with 2 performers come together? Who decides to be the audience?
There are countless examples of people performing on Chatroulette. I can’t wait until a full theater performance is played over and over for a line of random individuals looking to be surprised.
Hop on Chatroulette, and the unexpected happens.
And really, this is why the improv game “Last Action Joke” exists.
David Mamet on dramatic writing, I think it includes improv scene work.
These are excerpts taken from a memo written to the writers of The Unit. David Mamet is an Executive Producer for The Unit.
BUT NOTE:THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN’T, I WOULDN’T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNEIN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.
Writers are tasked with creating things that happen. This is very true.
SO: WE, THE WRITERS, MUST ASK OURSELVES OF EVERY SCENE THESE THREE QUESTIONS.
1) WHO WANTS WHAT?
2) WHAT HAPPENS IF HER DON’T GET IT?
3) WHY NOW?
This is true with most forms, and, as I think of it now, in improv as well.
ANY TIME TWO CHARACTERS ARE TALKING ABOUT A THIRD, THE SCENE IS A CROCK OF SHIT.
And I’ve been seeing a lot of improv scenes about this lately, where we NEVER see the third person in the scene.
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. It’s pretty spot on. The use of all capitals is his.
In more laser eyes news, this is awesome (From KidRobot)
My friends asked me to give them laser eyes. So I did, and here they are.
