Dullness (The Dullness Trap)
Johnstone's diagnosis of boring improv: performers playing safe, trying to be clever, or blocking offers to maintain control — the default failure mode.
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- Johnstone: 'Trying to be witty is the most certain way of being dull.'
- Dullness comes from education's overlay of 'what ought to be' onto the world as it is.
- The 'be obvious' corrective: first-thought choices are almost always more interesting than cleverly filtered ones.
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