thedailygrace:

Maybe I’m in a little bit of bad mood today. Maybe I’ve just had too much caffeine. Maybe I’m nervous about the way too many things I have going on today but I just want to talk for a minute about the perception of Improvisers being open and fair game for anything from anyone at all times. Am I…

I brought up physicality with my new team in Toronto on Sunday after practice, because I wanted to know everyone’s personal boundaries and limits before our first show tonight. They all said they were open to “everything and anything”, which is totally cool, but they kind of made fun of me for even bringing it up. As if it’s some sort of unspoken rule; what happens onstage is totally fair and anything goes. HELLLL NO. 

Great physical work is SO much fun to watch onstage, if you get the feeling the improvisers are friends, know each other, and are explicitly cool with it. When there’s even a tiny shred of doubt, it makes me, as an audience member, super uncomfortable in a bad way.