reading (without) comprehension
May 28th, 2008 • comedy, improvisation
A brief twitch before my brain caught up:
If, like me, you’ve been to all previous 10 years of the Chicago Improv Festival, you might have been wondering what happened to the annual April confab of spontaneously funny people. Isn’t it now almost June?Well, this year the writers’ strike got in the way.
That’s the recognition that a number of very talented comedy writers are also talented improvisers (or the other way around, if you like) not the inadvertent admission that improvisers need scripts. : )
I’d be interested to find out if the change of month is a permanent decision or if the festival will switch back next year, fresh strike notwithstanding. Incidentally, where was I in April when the improv festival wasn’t happening? Chicago. Where am I now? Safely back in Scotland. Now that’s timing.
