"Improvised Book Club" & Asking Your Audience to Do Homework
Longform improv is weird. Most audiences need a primer on what's happening before they fully absorb what the show is attempting to do"partially because the show is discovering what it is attempting to do as it goes and partially because Whose Line Is It Anyway? will always be an expectational force to be reckoned with. Hence, many improv companies try various forms that have a "schtick" to get audiences intrigued and…