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Adam Dalliance

Did the end-of-course improv show at the Hoopla thing at the Miller in London.

They had a cider festival going on and I was in the post-interval group, so I wasn't even allowed to drink any untill we were finished. 😠 It's not at all like being in the band, where we wouldn't go on stage till the start of the third pint. 😆

Someone who had never been on stage might think that the looks on the faces of all the audience may make you nervous, but in fact you can't really even see any of them coz the stage lights are in your eyes. Front two rows, max. Some lights on phones beyond that maybe.

On top of that, I was mostly stage right with a long-hair fringe which is also on my right. The audience were mostly hidden behind my hair in the dark and my attention upon co-performers.

As usual though, I still find my self-assessment of performance is that I do worse in front an audience.

The more aware I am that the audience exists, the less attention I have on the task at hand maybe?

That attention spent on awareness of the audience's existence certainly feels like it leaves less brain-power for forming memories.

I usually find being on stage a hazy recollection, mostly of my mistakes. And it turns out my recall of events is fairly poor even when not two-pints-in!

I think I was pretty superfluous and maybe a bit blocking in the first game, funny mostly by Incongruous references to toes and fingernails in the second, and lost but coping well with enacting a movie I never really watched in the third.

And that's all you get really, in a team of 14 doing two 45 minute halves.

That is the thing which makes Improv actually pretty easy. You don't have to be individually clever or smart or funny coz the collective is stronger than the components.

None of these lot in the pictures here are me obviously, they were in the first half when I wasn't.

I did used to do selfie-videos from the stage when I was in a band, but it would definitely not be right here where the job is teamwork, not front-man 😆

A woman with hand on heart is expressing deep emtion, while two performers stand back and two more are seated looking on.
Three performers stand, hands behind back, voicing as one.
A man is blasting magic fire into another man's face. You had to imagine the fire if you were there but these photos are all edited for light-leaks and streaks so you can proper see it here.
Seven performers bow.
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