Big Cult: This Improv Writes Itself
I’ve seen a lot of improv this month. I’m a big fan of all forms of improv. No net. Gotta get it done. It’s badass. Tonight, it was a show called This Improv Writes Itself by Big Cult at Copious in Ballard. There were only five Big Cult actors and most of the time, one of them was running the sound/light board. So that left just four actors in front of the audience to play the scenes. In most comedy improv that I’ve seen, there are six, eight, ten actors. So when the energy is lagging and the scene needs something to keep it going, an actor can run in from the wings and goose it up – or end it with the wave of a hand. Big Cult apparently likes a challenge. They toughed it out with just the four on stage and the one in the booth and no one to save them. Also, in most comic improv, they give themselves a lot to work with. Usually they take multiple suggestions from the audience for each bit so they have several different inputs to draw from. But Big Cult was