Advanced Game and Character
Beyond 'find the game' and 'make a character choice.' Advanced game mechanics — how games evolve, invert, and break. Advanced character — built from body, status, and game rather than biography and accent.
performer3 lessons | 30 min
Who this is for
- Experienced performers who already know basic game and character language.
- Improvisers pushing toward more distinctive, higher-level scene work.
Before you start
- Comfort with finding and heightening the game of the scene.
What you'll get
- Recognize higher-order game mechanics like inversion, transformation, and earned breakage.
- Build character from body, status, and scenic pattern instead of biography alone.
- Shift from deciding characters to discovering them in play.
Course syllabus
Move in order. Each thread builds on the one before it.
1
The Game Beneath the Game: Advanced Pattern Mechanics
You know how to find the game. You can heighten it. You know when to rest. That's Level 3 work. Here's Level 5.
9:39→
2
Quieting the Planning Mind
You know the feeling. Your scene partner says something and instead of responding, your brain launches a search: What's the funny thing to say? What's the...
9:24→
3
Character as Discovery: Beyond Accents and Attitudes
Most improv characters are built from the neck up — a voice, an attitude, maybe an occupation.
10:46→
Mastering the Form
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