{"id":525,"date":"2001-11-16T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2001-11-16T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2020-08-18T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T23:14:42","slug":"the-usual-suspects-improv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2001\/11\/16\/the-usual-suspects-improv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Suspects (Improv)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not the Spacey movie, but improvisational theatre. Back in Auckland, New Zealand, I used to frequent a comedy improv thing called &#8220;Scared Scriptless&#8221;, and before that a more structured team-oriented one called &#8220;Theatresports&#8221;. Rather like &#8220;Whose Line Is It Anyway&#8221; if you&#8217;re familiar with that show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw a review of &#8220;The Usual Suspects&#8221; in the local paper, noted the time and venue &#8211; 8pm, Nov 16 &#8211; and decided to give this a try. The Community College of Southern Nevada sounded like a place we needed to check out for interesting events and activities anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show was very much like Scared Scriptless &#8211; a small, amateurish college theater, minimal-to-non-existent scenery, just three actors and an audience willing to suggest themes and one-liners. It was very enjoyable. They have another show coming up on Dec 7, and we&#8217;re wondering whether to take James and Sue when they visit (from UK on their way back to NZ) in a couple of week&#8217;s time. In fact, I&#8217;m fairly sure it was James who first introduced me to Theatresports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the Spacey movie, but improvisational theatre. Back in Auckland, New Zealand, I used to frequent a comedy improv thing called &#8220;Scared Scriptless&#8221;, and before that a more structured team-oriented one called &#8220;Theatresports&#8221;. Rather like &#8220;Whose Line Is It Anyway&#8221; if you&#8217;re familiar with that show. We saw a review of &#8220;The Usual Suspects&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}