There is one thing that we tend to forget about a lot of the time when we do an improv show and that is the audience. Yes, the whole reason you are on the stage is to entertain the audience but are you actually thinking about the audience when you put on a show.

Of course an improv show naturally has a lot of interaction with the audience as you are always asking for suggestions to push your scene forward. However have you ever thought about your audience that you are performing to and if they are getting everything they should out of your set or performance?

From recent coaching with Suki Webster we found out that we were not making game descriptions clear to the audience. We didn’t realise we were doing this because we are so used to the games ourselves that we didn’t realise that our descriptions were not clear enough for the audience. Thinking about this logically I started to think about all the improv shows that I have seen and the thing that used to frustrate me a lot is when some Long Form teams do not describe what they are about to do on stage because if you are not used to the world of improv it can be really confusing.

It may seem like such a simple factor but it is something that you can easily forget – especially when you go to nights such at Hoopla because a lot of the audience is improvisers but there will always be someone in the audience that does not know that much about improv so make sure that you accommodate for all!