Order and Chaos!

Saturday, May 31, 2008
11:00am - 2:00pm
Common Ground Theatre

Order and Chaos! taught by Christopher Conklin

Don't just stand there and look confused when things start getting weird or else the show will fall apart around you. Find the ebb and flow of your scenes and shows. Figure out how what you've done influences what's to come. Learn to have fun when you don't know what's going on.

Christopher began improvising at the dawn of time and enjoys it immensely. He has studied at UCBT in New York and DSI in North Carolina.


Please email fourstringimprov@gmail.com or call Ryan Locante at 773.339.2878 to reserve your spot(s).

To ensure the best experience for each student, class size is limited to 12.

Wrong Number...

Okay, so, all is pretty well in Samurailand this week. Rettb and I had it out and I think he now understands his "role" in the team. We had a good practice on Sunday and we are all excited for our upcoming huge gig. Which brings me to my concern this week. Our gig is on April 28th, not the 14th, even though it says the 14th in the sidebar, just to the right of this post. Everytime I visit this blog, which is, like, a bazillion times a day, I see that date and I desperately want to change it. But, guess what? I can't. I don't have "access". Who does, you ask?

Mr. C.J. Conklin, who is, by the way, a liar.

CJ Conklin started this blog and asked us all to "contribute". I'm the creative one in the group, so I immediately started coming up with a "look" for the blog. I found an 8-bit picture of a ninja on the net and repeated it in photoshop, like a million times, and then mirrored half of the ninjas, so it looks like half a million ninjas fighting half a million other ninjas. In other words, AWESOME! I also found this really cool stop-motion animation movie of this guy who is riding this other guy like a skateboard and does kickflips and ollies and no-hander backside 900s and I was totally gonna put it in the sidebar 'cuz it would give people something to look at and it wouldn't be annoying at all. Well, after doing all that work (six hours), I logged on to the blogger (ten minutes. I have dial-up.), only to be told that I wasn't "allowed" to make changes to the template. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!! I confronted CJ Conklin about this on Sunday and he assured me that HE would make all the changes when he got home. So, I sent him all my awesome design files (2 hours. Dial-up) with specific instructions about placement and colors and stuff and well, do YOU see any Ninjas? No. Is the date of our gig correct? Also, no. Are you enjoying the really cool stop-motion animation movie of this guy who is riding this other guy like a skateboard and does kickflips and ollies and no-hander backside 900s? No numero tres.

Dear CJ Conklin,
Webmaster does NOT mean "Master of the Universe and all the people in it". Please stop hurting the team with your power trip.

Yours in Comedy,

Paul

Christopher Conklin

Christopher Conklin has been improvising since 2000. He was a founding member of Haverford College's The Throng and the Philadelphia troupe Rare Bird Show. Since moving to North Carolina, Christopher has performed in numerous shows and ensembles and has directed several others. He served in many capacities at the DSI Comedy Theater, including sitting on the Artistic Committee, working as School Manager, and teaching for the Training Center. In his various ensembles, Christopher has played the Del Close Marathon, the Philadelphia Improv Festival, the Black Box Improv Festival in Atlanta, and the Dirty South Improv Festival in Chapel Hill/Carrboro; he also taught workshops at the latter two fests.

Christopher lives in Carrboro with his wife and son; they enjoy organic produce and human rights, as is the Carrboro way. He works in web advertising. If for some reason his several posts per week on the Four String blog do not satiate you, Gentle Reader, please check out Christopher's Twittter feed and personal blog.