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Genroulette

Genroulette emerged as acting exercises with audience attached, but it also provided the privilege of watching actors at play, and, with its scattering of glowing moments, was still relatively easy to leave with a grin.

Improv's hard, man. It's such an intense, exhausting experience for everyone involved – the audience very much included – until responses to the performers' successes can emerge as much from of a sense of relief as a sense of humour. In Genroulette, John Robertson and Tegan Mulvany improvise movie scenes, selecting genre with a roulette wheel and the film titles from a box of audience suggestions. There is also a box from which games are randomly selected, some music cues, props and costumes, until everything is being interrupted with such ferocity, it's difficult to keep up – for actors and audience alike. In the end, Genroulette emerged as acting exercises with audience attached, but it also provided the privilege of watching actors at play, and, with its scattering of glowing moments, was still relatively easy to leave with a grin.