Sur le Match d’Impro:

It was interesting for me to talk with many South American Improvisers who have a frustrated attitude with “the Match”. Many feel reluctant to play it and are uninspired with it. On one side I think that there is something they could do to make themselves become more inspired (more basic skills) but on the other side, I think that the style of that format lends itself to limitations that do not enhance their experience and quality of work. (Limiting the time and numbers of people in a scene do nothing to help the scene or show when those decisions are arbitrary…) Formats need the ability to adapt to the moment. Being clever with packaging of your work is not a reasonable trade off to inspired work.

Les [joueurs / jouteurs] improvisent sur les thèmes que vous écrivez! Un spectacle [déjanté / acharné / endiablé / interactif], avec un [arbitre / maitre de cérémonie] [impartial / implacable / méchant] qui n’hésitera pas à imposer des [catégories / contraintes] [impossibles / expérimentales / extrêmes] et un public [chauffé à blanc / survolté]! Ils n’ont que 20 secondes pour se préparer et vous emmener vers des univers [fantastiques / loufoques / absurdes / décalés]. C’est complètement [fou / incroyable / délirant]!

Et n’hésitez pas à revenir, chaque spectacle est unique!

Keith Johnstone

Also, Keith is at BATS right now, and they are tweeting the workshop: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23KJBats

Edit: for some reason, the tag doesn’t work now. Here are links to the initial intensive twitter updates on the accounts of Improv Notebook, Rich Cox, Paul Killam and William Hall.