{"id":44,"date":"2017-06-18T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/?p=44"},"modified":"2018-05-16T02:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:18:34","slug":"01-game-playing-and-justifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/2017\/06\/18\/01-game-playing-and-justifying\/","title":{"rendered":"01 &#8211; Game &#8211; Framing and Justifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying and playing the game of a scene is the foundation of long-form improv: the improvisors must agree on what&#8217;s fun about the scene before they can really explore that game. This episode explains the importance of two fundamental parts of game: framing the game and justifying weird behavior. Featuring interviews with Achilles Stamatelaky, Nicole Drespel, James Dwyer, Sebastian Conelli, Joey Price, Morgan Phillips, Lydia Hensler, Lily Du, and Bill DiPiero. Hosted by Curtis Retherford.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fimprovbeatbybeat%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fimprovbeatbybeat%2F01-Game-Playing_and_Justifying.mp3&amp;podcast_link=http%3A%2F%2Fcurtisretherford.com%2Fimprov%2F2017%2F06%2F18%2F01-game-playing-and-justifying%2F\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/improvbeatbybeat\/content.blubrry.com\/improvbeatbybeat\/01-Game-Playing_and_Justifying.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/?powerpress_pinw=44-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/improvbeatbybeat\/content.blubrry.com\/improvbeatbybeat\/01-Game-Playing_and_Justifying.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"01-Game-Playing_and_Justifying.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identifying and playing the game of a scene is the foundation of long-form improv: the improvisors must agree on what&#8217;s fun about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curtisretherford.com\/improv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}