{"id":3,"date":"2010-11-26T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2024-04-02T01:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:31:51","slug":"from-too-many-larrys-to-so-many-janes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/from-too-many-larrys-to-so-many-janes\/","title":{"rendered":"From Too Many Larrys to So Many Janes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4103\/5195386158_f9ba536270.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Long form scared the poop out of me. But the loverly folk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improtheatre.com\/section\/home-page\/\">Impro Theatre<\/a> are breaking me of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In San Francisco I mostly performed BarProv with <a title=\"I remember history differently. But then again, don't we all.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toomanylarrys.com\/NEWtmlstylehistory.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too Many Larrys<\/a>. With occasional RadioProv on <a title=\"Finally, my dream of DJing realized!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liberationradio.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liberation Radio<\/a>. And very occasional long-form with <em>The Escape Artists<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If memory serves, <em>The Escape Artists<\/em> started strong at the very first\u00a0<a title=\"Some people don't consider improv theater.\" href=\"http:\/\/sftheaterfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Theater Festival<\/a>. We asked for a suggestion of a playwright and received \"Tennessee Williams.\" Then we asked for a location where this playwright would NOT have placed a play, and we received \"Internet Cafe.\" I don't remember much from that performance, except a love affair with the inimitable <a title=\"You should read his blog.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bullseyerooster.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Wickham<\/a>. That's the last positive experience I remember with long-form, until my show with Tuesday night class performing a 50 minute play in the style of Jane Austen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked performing Jane way more than I thought I would. I was chock full of dread. I never thought I'd be able to pull off the girlishness and the story line. And yet I (really \"we\" &#8212; me and my amazing class) did it much to my astonishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long form scared the poop out of me. But the loverly folk at Impro Theatre are breaking me of that. In San Francisco I mostly performed BarProv with Too Many Larrys. With occasional RadioProv on Liberation Radio. And very occasional long-form with The Escape Artists. If memory serves, The Escape Artists started strong at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4,5,7],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fear","tag-improv","tag-jane-austen","tag-long-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiseacreswest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}