Maestro Workshop and Show with William HallTo make people laugh, is a very second rate, inferior, cheap aim. If that's all you want, I think you should do something else. I think if you are benevolent, toward the audience, you want to give them good things, you wanna sell them good stuff. You don't want to palm them off with second rate products and lots of hype. So I think if you're benevolent in your intention, you can't just repeat what TV does, because TV has no benevolence. It just wants to sell you products, and is actually pretty evil. Then you have to decide what benevolent is. Is it benevolent to just waste their time like some kind of Valium, so they get two hours closer to death without much pain? Or would you like to do more?...
Anything that moves the work towards organized stupidity, like education for example, in our schools -- which is certainly organized stupidity -- is bad. The idea that they laugh at you because you're stupid is very valuable for very short little ten-minute -- no, five-minute -- bursts. But in general, you should try to wean people away from the idea that being stupid is worthwhile if they get a laugh. And you really want to make comment. It's no good making a wonderful sword if you don't cut anything with it."
-Keith Johnstone, A Practical Guide to Gorilla Theatre and Micetro
Saturday, February 9
class from 3-6pm, show at 10pm
$25
limit 16 people
email acrouch spat gmail spot com or PM Andy to register
We're constantly trying to raise the quality and find personal inspiration and gratification in Maestro. It's the best-selling improv show in Austin, and it'll be around for a while, so let's keep getting better at it. The participants in this workshop will be the cast and support for the show on Saturday night (directed by William Hall). We need players of all experience levels for this workshop and show.
William is one of my favorite improv teachers ever. He's one of the most experienced improvisers in not just Maestro, but all of the Johnstone formats. Check out his profile on the BATS site http://www.improv.org/about/players/hall.william.htm
Come spend $25 American on some world-class improv instruction, and you might just walk away with $5 Canadian.
Email acrouch spat gmail spot com or PM Andy to register
