Improv Basics
This two-word phrase is typically considered the most fundamental rule of improv.
What is "yes, and?"
These are the three parts of every story.
What is beginning, middle, and end?
What is cheating out?
This is the third and final part of the comedy formula.
What is punchline/follow-through?
What is 13?
The lack of this is what separates improv from traditional means of performance.
What is a script?
This word is used to describe the overarching path that a story takes from beginning to end.
What is plot?
This term refers to well-known character types that appear across multiple stories throughout time. They allow the audience to easily understand a character's function in the story.
What is an archetype?
This is the second part of the comedy formula.
What is twist/disturbance?
This tagline is used to describe the UA to prospective members.
This term is used when performers break the rules and dip into controversial or sensitive subjects.
What is brown-bagging?
What does CROWSPFUT stand for?
Character
Relationship
Objective
Who, What, When, Where, Why?
Space
Physicality
First Unusual Thing
This word refers to the controlled release of breath in order to increase the volume and clarity of one's voice.
What is projection?
This is the first part of the comedy formula.
What is setup/stasis?
What is Raccoon?
Complete the following phrase: ________ before comedy.
What is story?
These three things are the most basic requirements for theatre.
What is an actor(s), an audience, and a story?
This word refers to the placement of vowels and consonants within the mouth such that a speaker can be better understood by their audience.
What is diction/articulation?
To increase the conflict and tension during a scene.
What is heightening?
This is the full legal name of the UA mascot.
Who is Bubba the Big Mouth Bass?
This is the form of improv that this team utilizes in rehearsal and performance.
What is Chicago Style Improv/Guerilla Style Improv?
This is the point of greatest tension within a story.
What is climax? ;)
The two kinds of boundaries are as follows:
What are physical and mental/social/topical?
This phrase refers to a comedic archetypical character that takes the place of a rational observer within the scene.
What is straight man?
This is the year in which UA was founded.
What is 2005?