Bring a Brick

I’m Michael Bradt for The Bit Theater. One of my favorite sayings about improv that I annoy my students with is that creating a scene should be like building a wall. Our scene is the wall. Everyone involved in the scene is building the wall, and we want the wall to be a product of our collaboration, because building a wall alone is needlessly hard. So everyone has to bring their own bricks, which are their unique ideas. If one person supplies all the bricks, it’s going to be a pretty boring wall, and that person should go write screenplays instead of improvising. If people bring weak bricks, the wall is going to be unstable. Bring your own bricks, and help build that amazing, unique wall. That’s your improv tip for the day. If you hate metaphors, I’m sorry. And if you have a rehearsal, class, audition, or show tonight, break a leg, and I will see you next time.