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Hyperlink

Hyperlinks was created as part of a trip on magic mushrooms. It uses websurfer language to show the connections that all things have to each other. The form is this - a single word is gotten from the audience which is plugged into the improv "search engine" - three improvisers step forward into separate spots and, in turn, do the first two lines of a first-person character monologue. The content of the monologues and the scenes that follow should not have anything to do with web sites. Each monologue is inspired somehow by the word given. So the word "spirit" can lead to a monologue by a seer, a drunk and a cheerleader. - the host asks the audience to pick a monologue and informs them that they can yell "click" throughout the rest of the show to change the direction of the scenework. - the monologist that was selected moves centerstage and repeats the first two lines of the monologue and continues from there. The monologue works best when it relays a specific personal event. - the rest of the improvisers take turns creating multi-person still tableaus to either side of the monologist to illustrate things that they mention in their monologue. - when the audience yells the first click, the monologist enters whatever tableau is up either adding themselves to the tableau or taking the place of someone that was obviously playing them in the tableau. The first scene (which I call the "bread-and-butter" scene) starts from there. - from that point on it is all scenework. whenever the audience yells click you switch to a new scene. You can reincorporate previous scenes, characters, storylines or do throwaway scenes. The only storyline you have to return to is the "bread-and-butter" storyline. When you resolve that story, you resolve the show. The format lasts 50 minutes to an hour with intro. You will find that the audience will click very little at first (allowing you to establish scenes easily), quicken with the clickin' in the middle and will taper off at the end which allows you to end storylines easily.

Sometimes the truth is like a second chance --- Dar Williams