Hippie Van wrote:
I don't think your comparison is spot-on, gene hole. The difference is that they did not have subsequent scenes using different actors and different interpretations but which made up a larger narrative and then would be shown to an audience who was meant to understand the story as a whole. Can you imagine how that would turn out? The spacemen would turn into an old married couple, then two burglars, and so on. The audience would have no idea what was going on. If, on the other hand, each character was identifiable throughout the different interpretations despite other differences, the story would work just fine.
I agree with Hippies Van's sage like wisdom: improv excercises have their place, but that place is not in front of an audience. If I go to see The Scottish Play for instance, I want to see the same Scottish fellow in every scene, not a different selection of Scotsmen and women - call me old fashioned if you will.
Thanks ayes: the only difficult part was trying to squeeze in the Four Tops - I had to settle for a lone Levi Stubbs in the end.
