Duncan McKenzie

2025-05-01 19:05:59

The sticky stage

In improv, the "sticky stage" means that players enter a scene, but don't leave again. If you have six people on stage, each doing their own hilarious thing, it can become chaotic, making it difficult to create a coherent story, or for one player to react to something another player is doing.

I wrote a piece recently about the problems with "sticky stage" and some exercises which encourage people to be as enthusiastic about their exit as they are about their entrance

https://improvnotes.com/2025/04/28/sticky-stage/

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