What Samuel Beckett and UCB have in common

UCB Theatre. Franklin Blvd. Hollywood, CA.

Went to the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater last night to take in Harold Night. Improv is something that I have recently gotten involved with to supplement my acting training. I started a week ago and really can't believe that I haven't gotten involved sooner. I have seriously never had as much fun as in this class and it is a great way to really get out of your comfort zone, take a big swing and see what happens. I see a lot of actors out there really playing it safe when making choices during a performance, and although it's really the only way to safeguard not completely falling flat on your face, it also makes for pretty one dimensional acting. The best acting is born from a lot of failure, not something society has prepared us to deal with gracefully. We all laud success and only success, tending to ignore the massive amount of failure which goes into it. You MUST fail before you can ever succeed, and if you fail big, you could succeed big. A very wise playwright once wrote: "Risk, Fail. Risk Again." How true those words are.