Patterns and Comedy Gert and Ginger Riffs

When staging comedy we work with different tools that help us build structures that make audiences laugh. To accomplish this we use is tension and release. This usually comes in the form of a surprise, twist or turn.

Here two of our actors who were riffing off our long rehearsal process developed aged versions of themselves whom they call Gert (Katie Steinhour) and Ginger (August Roy).

Gert and Ginger discuss our rehearsal process and using Slapsticks

In this production we play with a lot with is patterns. We set up repeated patterns that we then break. Gert and Ginger rehearse a pattern using slapsticks which we have been doing for some time.

We then follow it with a version of their younger selves doing something very much like what you will see in the show which opens tonight! (Sans costumes, of course.)