438 - Ruth Bratt
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a splash of pure sunshine, with the veteran of 1000 full-length improvised musicals in Olivier Award-winning “Showstopper!”, Ruth Bratt. She’s a supernaturally brilliant improviser and a sparkling human being, who is a) ambitiously lazy and b) feeds off the carrion of her own heart.
We talk about her work with some of the biggest names in her craft; entering a waking dream state during 50-hour long improv marathon shows; getting down to the last two for Dobby in “Peep Show”; and the big choice that won her a role in “People Just Do Nothing”.
30mins of extras exclusively available to members of the Insiders Club include a fascinating dissection of insider impro/v terms, including “shelving”, “deepening”, “edits, taps and swipes” as well as the “circle of ideas”, not to mention Ruth’s experiences of the “horror” of early standup…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. I'm Stuart Goldsmith today. I'm talking to the brilliant Ruth Brat a sparkling human being and a dear friend of mine as well as an |
| 0:54.5 | Incredible improviser and the veteran of over a thousand full length improvised musicals in the Olivier award-winning showstopper |
| 1:02.5 | Now if you spent any time around the West End of London or indeed at the Edinburgh Festival and numerous places besides I've been imagine |
| 1:09.2 | Showstopper will be very familiar to you as one of those |
| 1:12.9 | One of those shows where they |
| 1:15.2 | Nicely seem to do the impossible they take a single audience suggestion at the beginning of the show and then create an entire |
| 1:22.9 | musical an hour long |
| 1:24.9 | funny |
| 1:26.3 | meaningful |
| 1:27.8 | passionate |
| 1:28.7 | Brilliant completely improvised musical and to me even knowing what I know about |
| 1:35.0 | Improvisation not to mention not knowing what I don't know about musicals that seems like wizardry and |
| 1:41.0 | We're gonna get into a little bit some of the some of the techniques behind it |
| 1:45.7 | We're also going to talk about the 50 hour long improv marathon shows in which Ruth has participated |
| 1:52.0 | We're going to talk about her work with some of the biggest names in the world of impro or improv depending on which side of the pond you're on |
| 1:58.7 | And the pond there being an analogy for how people pronounce things as well as an actual pond |
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