Caspar Schjelbred in PLAN C, in a long dark coat and bow tie holding a pipe, standing by a tomb in a Paris cemetery beside a white letter C
Photo: Jonno Sly

PLAN C

PLAN C is Caspar Schjelbred’s long-term solo improvisation project, created in 2012 and performed more than seventy times across four continents.

One performer on stage, with no narrative frame and no fixed characters to hide behind. The piece runs on clear internal structures, but plays out in direct contact with the audience.

How it developed

Over the years the show changed. Working alone made habits and tricks immediately visible – they had to be dealt with, live. Certain actions and sequences came back, return after return, until an improvisation hardened into something closer to a fixed act. The plan was always to experiment.

PLAN C is where Schjelbred has tested his understanding of improvisation most directly, in public.