Badly Put<\/em> is the brainchild of Barny Rivera and Aih Mendoza, two students from the Third World Improv<\/em> school who both hail from advertising backgrounds. They wanted to channel their passions, frustrations, and insights from the advertising industry into an improv show as a way to showcase their shared experiences to those who might feel the same way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Barny and Aih are joined by Jason Chamberlain, Baus Rufo, Rayna Vihuela Reyes, Kara Angelli Flores, Elyss Punsalan, Kyo Mendoza, Ria Vita Puangco and Karl Echaluse to round out the ensemble of players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the show started, members of the audience were asked to write down lines from songs and taglines from brands to be later used as prompts. It later opened with quicker games heavy with audience participation to get the show going and moving on to longer forms of comedic exercises such as skits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Those with familiarity with improv know audience participation is a must. The cast riffs of the suggestions and the energy from the crowd to create stories and crack jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cast warmed the audience up by asking them to yell out words they associated with advertising starting from A to Z in four minutes or less. Immediately, words like brief, deck, hassle, JO, OT, tears, <\/em>and revisions <\/em>started streaming in from the audience. It was obvious that everyone in the room was brought together by these mutual feelings and shared experiences in the way they laughed as each word was written down on the whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The taglines requested from the audience earlier were used as punchlines in a skit that portrayed a conversation between co-workers that discussed everything from pitches, big ideas, client briefs, to office politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Arguably my favorite part of the whole show was their on-the-spot strategy presentation for a milk brand for adults. Two people from an \u201cagency\u201d had to pitch to the \u201cclient\u201d without conferring before the presentation and no materials ready. In lieu of slides, their other cast members were spontaneously posing behind them to serve as visual aids while the two presenters came up with ways to explain what they were doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The show was a great time, though there were some segments that needed a little bit more nuance. There was a segment in the beginning where three presenters were given a theme and had to say just one word each to form a thought. This closely mirrored the evening\u2019s final act, which was essentially the same, but the presenters were acting as an all-knowing, all-seeing being that would give advice to the audience, referred to as the Ora-girl, a pun on oracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of their longer form skits also felt a little too drawn out with long scenes between laughs that kept the audience waiting for the punchline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond that, there were so many things that Badly Put: The Third Revision<\/em> got right. The ensemble were unafraid to make mistakes and roll with the punches. They took all the prompts from the audience and wove it together with their own experiences that resulted in universal truths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Badly](\"https:\/\/workwiseasia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/326FD1BC-0BE7-4348-A6A2-2085C1C8C8D0-1024x900.jpg\")
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The Ora-girl<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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