Submitted by lobster_king on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 16:59.
For two years, I've been involved with Theatre Strike Force, the improvisational comedy group on campus – and if there's a good way to learn the importance of narrative (as far as keeping an audience's attention), improv is probably one of the best teachers you can get. Having just been to an audition on Thursday night for the TSF-affiliated long-form improv groups (and not doing too well, I might add – for reasons both in and out of my control), the aspects of narrative that Chatman describes in Story and Discourse (Ch. 2) certainly pertain even to completely made-up situations, although at times, improvising wholeheartedly ignores or breaks the 'rules' or necessities of narrative. read more »
