The Rob Redstone Show

IMPROV Class Shows Your Weaknesses! Great to Improve Yourself!

So not only is my improv class getting amazingly fun, I am getting braver by the second! Today was a great day in improv, I had some really funny scenes.. But BEWARE! You must still listen to EVERY word that comes out of your class mates mouths, or you can get yourself in trouble, or rather look foolish and have everyone have a great belly laugh at your expense! Which is what happened to me today, twice.

No big deal, I shook it off and laughed with them and was like UGH!! But this class for me is a God-send because, if you have flaws or areas that need fixing, you’re going to lay it all out in the open in from of the world and find out about it, and everyone else will see your flaws too. My flaw is I need to listen MUCH better to what happens before I interject myself into a scene.

For instance, today we did a scene game with 2 people who start and go with a part of info grabbed from another students monologue and go with it. Then you are allowed to do a ‘walk on’ where you can enter their scene temporarily and have some lines, influence the scene in some way and walk off.. Their scene was from a section of a monologue where, in the story, a couple goes to Hong Kong after their wedding but plans if before the husband gets fired. So as I was planning my ‘walk on’, the husband states in the scene that he got fired today. I obviously did not hear him say it and I do my walk on and knock on an imaginary door for him to answer only to break the news to him that I am from his job and I am laying him off. Well, that got huge laughs because he already said he got fired today! So where was my brain! Oh well, it really was funny anyway, it’s tiny words or sentences that are not processed by your brain can really bite you in the butt!

But in the long run, seeing that I have a flaw to overcome, and the exact nature of the flaw, is great, now I can work on that and nip it in the butt. This really is great for my show too. Imagine I was with a celeb and miss heard something they said and fired back with something completely stupid! It’s a class like this that shows you your weaknesses’ and areas that need improvement….

This class is great and worth every penny! Plus I really have nerves of steal and can get up in front of many people and do my thing, even if I screw up, it’s not the end of the world, just react to screwing up like a pro and move on..

That’s all for today’s blog!
Rob Redstone