The shameful way the reporting is being done at NO makes me want to move somewhere... but I will get over it.
Hat tip: Kevin
Without Annette Blog: Montreal Improv Comedy: "Being positive is a little more complicated. To start, being positive means ideas result in positive consequences. Player A hands Player B a sheet of paper. Negative: “Oh, you got an F on your paper!” Positive: “Wow! Is this a picture of the cottage you built?” Now, being negative isn’t automatically a bad thing but if you are positive then everyone onstage will subtly feel more comfortable and instead of having to address negative consequences, there is space to build character, environment, or, more generally, a scene in a more relaxed setting. If someone hands you an idea and it frequently turns into a disastrophe, this is not conducive to good scene-building. First of all, you’ll have a hard time setting up because being negative off the top results in Instant Trouble (which can be painful or at least less interesting). Secondly, you’ll have trouble resolving a scene if problem follows problem. You do need to be negative for things like conflict or friction, but you cannot be consistently negative and expect much to come from a scene."
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