Size does matter

IA has thinned out a little bit lately. We are down from 14 at the beginning of the year to only 10 at the moment. Which in all reality, is making rehearsal better. (No offense to the people who are on temporary, or permanent hiatus.) Everyone is getting more rehearsal time to work, and I think it is really going to help our upcoming shows. Previously, with our larger cast, people would sometimes never play with certain performers. How can you get comfortable with someone when you never perform with them? Now, everyone is in a scene with everyone in the cast during rehearsal, and will be playing with everyone in the next few shows. Trust and comfort are already starting to show even in the past few weeks. Everyone has been in the group for at least a year now, and I really think that levels and experience are out the window. Strengths are starting to form for each person, and we are really becoming a nice cast of improv geeks.

More importantly, our long form piece last night went really well. We can actually hold scenes together with relationships, while still playing and heightening the game. It only took 8 years, but IA is finally getting great at scene work.