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Step 1
Learn the term "ask-for." This is when the improv actors ask the theater audience for specific suggestions to start a scene.
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Step 2
Understand that a "beat" is a division of action in a scene, and that scenes are made up of several beats.
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Step 3
Find out how to use "extending," which involves taking the theater audience's suggestion and letting it become the main theme of the scene.
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Step 4
Know that a "handle" is the basis for a scene or game.
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Step 5
Use "setup" by describing the handle of the scene to the audience before the scene starts.
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Step 1
Learn the term "offer," which is any dialog or action which moves the scene along. Offers should be accepted.
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Step 2
Understand that "accepting" is when you support the offers made by other actors in order to advance the scene.
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Step 3
Turn intent into action and movement and you will be using "physicalization."
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Step 4
Use "chivalry" by giving up control in a scene and not clinging to your own ideas, status or character life. Chivalry embraces change and allows you to be altered by other players.
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Step 1
Learn the term "wimping," which means that you accept an offer but do not act upon it.
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Step 2
Understand that "cancelling" is when you make an earlier action irrelevant, as if it never happened.
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Step 3
Know that the term "corpse" means to start laughing (out of character) when you are acting in a scene.
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Step 4
Recognize when you are "driving," or taking over a scene, and not letting your fellow actors shape its direction.
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Step 5
Identify "mugging," which is when you make silly faces instead of reacting truthfully in a scene.
