Face2Face Improv

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The troupe in Improv Sepia Tone.

What are Improv Games? In reality, this is part of the definition of short form improvisation. Face2Face Improv Games are: Any exercise or improvised scene that employs a type of ‘hook’ or ‘schtick’ to play with. The audience sees this and tags along for the ride, but FIRST the actors receive a suggestion or idea from them. IE – Question Tennis uses nothing but questions in the scene as the ‘hook. IE – In ‘Censor’,…

Face2Face Improv Mission Statement

“Many people have the idea that to improvise you have to get up on a stage and ‘make it up.’ it could also be said that the bulk of driving is pointing the car, so let’s allow five-year-olds to do it. Bad idea. — Jeff Catanese, Improv Review

Face2Face Improv, the first and only professional improvisation troupe in North Alabama, performs long form improv, similar in style to Second City or iO. Loosely based on the aptly-named “Harold” method, F2F takes an audience suggestion and performs an hour long play with multiple characters entering and exiting the story. These plays are performed simultaneously as a debut and finale. No show is ever the same!

Reactions by F2F Patrons when each attended the October 22, 2011 show.

SEPT. 30, 2011 ‘Machine’ WarmUp Exercise.

“Improv cures what ails americans.” — Liz Allen, iO, Improv Olympics

The mainstay of Face2Face Improv, the only professional improvisational troupe in North Alabama, is improvised games in the style of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” in which crowd suggestions are crafted into a slew of original, on-the-spot sketches which bring audiences back, month after month.

Face2Face Improv, the only professional improvisational troupe in North Alabama, specializes in short form improv, in the style of iO or Second City. Based on an audience suggestion, typically but not necessarily one word, F2F weaves multiple, suggestion-inspired story lines together in an entertaining and inspiring one-act play.

Face2Face Improv Vision Statement

“What kind of an idiot do you think you are?” – Meghan Kenny

Mathis Sneed: “Subject! Er, son!” Jeremy Shelley: “Yes, Doctor Father?”

“When you use gunpowder, things happen!” — Fred Sayers

“It’s not fiction once it’s published, it’s news.” — Jason Sims

“Snacks… why did it have to be snacks?” – David Hitt (as Indiana Jones)