What Else Is True?

PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTE

DAVID ROSENBERG | Playwright

“When I tell people I wrote a play about improv, I get two pretty strong reactions. Some people light up: “Improv? I love improv! Did I ever tell you about my high school improv team? We were actually really funny. Like for instance, one time…” For these people, the true believers, improv is magic. It’s harmony. But for the rest of us, maybe the majority, improv is complicated. We’ve sat in enough dark basements watching enough plaid shirted white guys to know that when improv doesn’t work— and yeah, it sometimes doesn’t work— it is…uncomfortable. But we do it anyway, and we make our friends come watch us in dark basements, because we know what it feels like to touch that magic. We’re desperate to put our arms around it again. This is maybe why college kids like it so much. In college we still have the privilege of believing in magic. 

College is about self-discovery, and self-improvement. There’s so much self to it. And that’s good. It’s a wonderful time to focus on ourselves. I guess what I’m interested in is what we do to other people when we’re focusing on ourselves. That’s kind of what this play is about. That, and improv. Thank you for coming to see the play. I promise the improv won’t be uncomfortable. Or I hope not, anyway. If it is, well, there are worse things.”