“This is what we can say about what an improvisation is: a story that we tell ourselves as when we were children. »

“- Stéphane Volle: since an improvisation is a beautiful, simple story written by players, the question is: how to write or how to tell a beautiful, simple story?

– Pierre Martineau: the only answer that comes to mind is: starting from emotions! Because a story is told with the stomach, with the guts; a good story anyway. »

These interviews with Pierre Martineau, historic Master of Ceremonies of the National Improvisation League in Montreal, are the way to know and understand the spirit which animated the creators of this game and this concept: the theatrical improvisation match. They are essential to fully understand not only the usefulness of the rules, the importance of the framework: “why do we do this or that”; but above all the “how”: how to improvise, that is to say how to “tell beautiful stories together”.