Metaphor Madness, or, Love and Dandruff

The whole metaphor thing is really exciting for audiences, and fun to do. It's like a hidden trick: a way to bring poetry and mysteriously profound dialogue into your improv. Or songs. Or daily life.

The premise: Pick something (could be an emotion, could be a person, could be a verb?) and something else for it to be like (probably a noun). Boldly state that Thing 1 is (or is like) Thing 2. Then, let the justification for it fall out of your mouth. The bolder you are, the better. Don't matter if it don't make no sense. If you mean it, it must have meaning.

Doing this exercise with my casts always creates really exciting and fun results.

And when we accidentally (and then on purpose) played it with audiences during Un-Scripted: unscripted, it was always a major crowdpleaser. In any genre. Worked for Shakespeare, worked for film noir, worked for beat poetry . . .

My favorite metaphor of the rehearsal process so far (and yes, I know, it's a simile) has to be the following (quoted as accurately as I remember):

"Love is like dandruff . . . it starts at my head, and then slowly moves down my body." --Pepper Jobe

The Un-Scripted Theater Company Has a Blog!

Greetings, Un-Scripted fans!

Welcome to our new fancy Show Blog! It's where to get the real scoop on Un-Scripted shows. The cast, crew, interns, and directors can post all kinds of things about what's going on in rehearsal, the things we're learning, how shows are going, and whatever's on their mind. Pictures, links, pithy quotes, you name it.

We're hoping that it'll be a great way to communicate with YOU, our friends and audience members. Check it out! Ask us questions about improv, let us know what you think about shows, post US links that YOU think we should check out, and all that good stuff. Who knows what will happen?

We're looking forward to it!
As a teaser, here's the show that we're working on NOW. It's The Great Puppet Bollywood Extravaganza! and it opens exactly one month from today: November 28th, the day after Thanksgiving. Puppets! Bollywood! Fun for the whole family! Ooo, and just fyi: tickets are $10 until Halloween.



Cheers! Hope to see you at the theater—and to be hearing from you on our spankin' new blog!