TIM monologues #5
Each speeches to store employeesWhen: Wednesday, April 8, 8:15-8:25 p.m., after the applause
Where: online on computer: https://zoom.us/j/719628022
OR on the smartphone ZOOM app
Everyone is welcome from 8:05 p.m. onward. Afterwards, the video can be freely distributed to give heart to other caregivers.
Like snow in the sun
As with so many other customized services going on in public, we saw the TIM schedule for the next few weeks dissolve into nothingness in two days.
Even before the government banned large gatherings, the colleagues of Improovelicious decided that it was irresponsible for the International Improvisation Festival to take place in April and canceled the event that had been hard at work for a year.
At TIM Theater, the discussion soaked up whether we shouldn't decide for ourselves that theatrical performances were too dangerous? Not for us, safe on stage, but for the audience crammed together for an hour and a half. One player already decided for herself that she didn't want to do it again and bravely sent her cat. Those who took the stage tried to play off the crazy feeling of not touching each other. And we at Inspinazie are so keen on (inter)physical play!
For once, we didn't bother to put the Flemish audience that by default crawls away a bit close together at the front. Or we were happy with the little tables a client had provided to pull the audience a little further apart.
During a workshop, we gave people the opportunity to go wash their hands after we did an exercise where they held hands together without thinking. No one took up that offer. We can't imagine it now, but that was too weird back then.
Living Impro
In the days that followed, one client after another called off and we suddenly and fairly unexpectedly found ourselves in a new reality. In improv world, the following message soon circulated:
Now it's for real.
This is what we practiced for.
Improvising is, among other things, "letting it in first." That's where Ingrid Deprez wrote a nice blog About. Connect with what is.
From TIM Theater, we especially see how the world itself seems like a mad play right now with a lot of improvisation and a lot of urgency and a lot of need for connection. We are completely closing our TIM kot for a few weeks as many other theater organizations are forced to do, but in the meantime we like to keep an eye on where we can be of some significance as volunteers, including improvisational theater.
The online TIM Heart Under the Belt Monologues
One formula is such a given that we start tomorrow! A general standard with our performances is that we close with a heartfelt heartfelt speech to the specific target audience we are in front of. We do this classically in the form of an improvised monologue, also known as "The 10 Word Speech."
This one lends itself perfectly to a digital version! Other forms will follow later.
We are going to start with speeches for the groups that would have been represented in the performances that were canceled, followed by every other possible group!
You may always let us know which group of people we should definitely also provide a heart-to-heart monologue for in the near future! Send an email to tim@inspinazie.be .
A TIM speech is not an empty compliment, but always filled with stories and input from and about that group of people, so we go after that first each time, too!
It will take place at 8:15 p.m. each time, after the applause.
Afterwards, the recording of the speech can be shared at will. The whole thing takes about ten minutes. Here you will find the announcement of the next one each time and an overview of the videos.
The first, on Friday, March 27, at 8:15 p.m., is for social workers.
On March 16 we went to play for Social Work students at UCLL, about under-protection in healthcare, and on March 17 we went to play for social workers in hospitals on the topic of poverty.
Elke Janssen, one of our top monologue improvisers, is all set!
