"Hamburger"

Check out this incredible video (incredible both for its content, and its presentation) featuring an interview with Del Close:

Lots of what he has to say resonates for me.  Some highlights:

• Improvisational theatre gets a much better audience buy-in when it's referred to as a sport or game, even if what it's doing is more akin to performance art.
• When what you're engaged in takes concentration, there's no time to work at entertaining an audience.
• Collaborative art is very sincere art (this is something I extrapolate).
• Everything that's said or done contains emotional intention - it might be a good idea to be as paranoid as possible on stage.
• The audience comes to see reactions and discoveries (unexpected synchronocity?).

I'm reminded in particular of the "hamburger" improvisation you all performed.  There was so much intention there, and the sense of game I mentioned in our discussion was extremely clear.  Elizabeth, I think this was also the improv in which you explored this idea of a techno-savvy internet-savant.