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Improv 201 — Game of the Scene

Saturdays noon-3pm starting May 03, 2008
Prerequisites: Completion of Improv 101
Cost: $300

The UCB Theatre Training Center bases their curriculum around the idea that all quality individual comedic scenes focus in on one central comedic idea – this idea is referred to as “The Game” of the scene.

This course will focus on teaching students how to use the idea of “The Game” to create their improvised scenes. Students will be taught how to identify “games” within their scenes, and how to use the concept of heightening to properly play out their scenes once they have them. (Heightening is finding new ways to make your scenes get funnier from start to finish.) The class will heavily focus on learning how to use patterns to fill out comedic scenes based around one central “game.”

Students will also be introduced to the idea of “second beats,” or returning to scenes, characters, and concepts from earlier in an improvised piece.

This course meets for 8 sessions that are each 3 hours long. At the end of the course, students will take part in a class performance at the UCB Theatre. Graduation is also contingent upon students seeing at least two improvised shows at the UCB Theater before the end of the course.

Class Size: 14 Students

NO CLASS MAY 24

Class meets at Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silverlake

Brett Christensen

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Brett Christensen has been studying and performing with the UCB Theatre in New York and LA for the past four years. His comedy experience starts more than a decade ago, at the University of Arizona, with the sketch and improv group Comedy Corner. Brett has performed extensively in both traditional & improv theaters in Los Angeles and New York.

Currently, Brett can be seen at UCBTLA on the house team Hey, Uncle Gary.

Student Feedback

"Brett makes you feel at ease while doing the exercises and scenes. He is a very good teacher to get the basics with."

"I love Brett -- he's smart, capable and hilarious. I loved every minute of this class."

"Brett was awesome. He was patient, insightful, creative and spent a lot of time answering specific questions. He did an awesome job, I would take another class with him in a second."