- Tongue Twister 2130
- Stuck in the Mud/ Ice and Water (Game) 3020
Activity: Improvisation 4345
Meaning: Have a conversation with someone about something because it is set up.
Instructions:
1. Find a partner and sit with a partner.
2. Have a conversation with your partner
Instructions:
1. Find another partner.
2. Each of you think about a friend that you have (someone you know). Think about a topic that they like.
Eg. Maybe their favourite football team.
3. Have a conversation with your partner but try to weave in some of the stuff or this topic that your friend really like.
4. Think about how your friends talks about this topic and what they say, what kind of things would they say.
Don't impersonate your friend, you don't need to put on the accent or voice.
Instructions:
1. Switch partners.
2. With your partner, come up with a location. Where you guys are, set that up.
Are you in a park? Are you walking in the supermarket?
3. (Same thing) Both of you will have a conversation about somebody you know, talking about the topic.
- Same like before except now, you have a location.
Aim: Pretending to be someone else. Talking to someone which you may not have met.
Object Improv
Instructions:
1. Stand up and get into a circle.
2. There is a chair in front of us. We are going to take turn and go up to the chair and use it in a different way than what it actually is.
But you are not going to talk unless it adds to our understanding of what it is.
3. And then you return to the circle.
4. You can go up as many times as you want.
5. You can stand there as long as you need to get the message across.
Instructions
1. With 2 volunteers, person A will sit on the chair.
2. You (person B) need to try to get your person A to get off of the chair. (Aim)
3. You (person B) can employ any tactics you like.
4. You (person A) need to be realistic, if person B says something that will generally make you get out of your chair, then get off the chair.
5. But as much as possible, you don't want to get off that chair.
Observation:
Pair 1: UNSUCCESSFUL
Person B tries but Person A keeps rebutting.
-That was less interesting for us.
- It wasn't going anywhere, it was stuck.
- We were watching the same tactic over and over again
- We are not seeing anything grow or change.
Pair 2: SUCCESSFUL
- We were engaged.
- The scene was interesting! WHY?
1. Different tactics was being used. (Poke face, touch face, chin, nose and chest but NOTHING WORKS!)
However, person A gives a small response.
Eg. Can you hear me? *Nods*
That kept us intrigued because he is responding but kept his eyes close
2. The crazy lady who was like HELLOOOO!!
3. Then all of the sudden "boom" He just gets up and walks out.
- If the other actor is also giving something, whether it is a small gesture like nodding or shaking the head.
- They both listening to each other, paying attention to each other, they can move forward and intemperate that into what they are doing.
Instructions:
1. Stand up and find a space in the room on your own and listen to my instructions
2. All the instructions and story that I tell you to think about, make it as real as possible.
Everything I say, see it as it is happening in front of you.
3. Weight the stuff as you are walking or moving, actually feel it really happening.
4. Commit to your it (actions).
5. Everybody is going to do the same thing at the same time. So commit to what you are doing.
6. Ignore everyone else and just focus on yourself. Make everything true.
- You are walking home (Go!)
- You are walking home after a long day either at school or from a job.
- It like 6:30pm, you're tired, you had a long day.
- Maybe think about your walk home.
You walk home from the MRT or the Bus Stop.
Questions:
What is it that you are going past?
Do you look up or do you look down?
How fast are you walking?
- You are caught in the sticky horrible day, where the whole day you just felt sweaty and gross and you can't wait to get home and get clean.
- You get to your lift lobby or your front gate, before you get to your door.
- Now, head towards your front door.
- Take out your key
- Unlock the front door and open the door.
Questions
Think about who is at home.
Where do you put your stuff?
What is the first thing you do when you get home?
-Whatever you are doing, you also switch on the TV.
Whether you are going to take a shower or eating, you must also switch on your TV to play as the background.
- And then you notice the show comes on, it is like a show for regular become to pretend to be like celebrities like American idol but not.
- And you hear your friend's name called.
Is that your friend pretending to be Britney Spears?
- You go over to double check.
- Then you do whatever it is that you do when friend pretends to be Britney Spears on TV.
-Really see your friend pretending to be Britney Spears.
Question
Is he a boy or it she a girl?
Is she/he doing good?
What song is she singing?
Who are you telling? Are you telling anyone?
- She/He is about to finish the song and you decide to flip channels because nothing can get better than that right now.
-So you switch. switch and look.
- Suddenly, you see the 4D draw. They are doing it live tonight for some reason and they have never done live before. You are watching this.
- And they are puling out the numbers.
- And this week you decide to buy 4D and the first number to come out is 24. Which is the first number you bought.
Don't have the ticket with you just yet. You are just watching because you didn't expect to win.
- 19!
You always by 19. 19 is your mum's birthday. You are pretty sure you bought 19! Better find that ticket just in case. Where did you put it?
Question?
In your wallet? Schoolbag?
Is it inside a book for safe keeping?
-24, 19 next number is 7!
Urgh! 3/4 numbers are out, this is worth a million dollars! Better find that ticket!
- 24, 19 and 7.
You just need one number, you just need 11. That is the last number that you need. Surely, surely 11 is not going to come out.
-But you wait, they are dragging this out. They repeat 24, 19, 7 and the last number is ... waiting ... this feels like eternity ... 11!
(Participant's reaction)
-You have won 1 million dollars! You won out of all the people who bought the 4 digit.
- "Don't look at me! Hello I'm just narrating the story!" What do you do? What happens now?
- It is 8 O'clock at night!
PAUSE!
- Don't tell me what you are doing, SHOW ME realistically if you have won 1 million dollars what would you do.
Eg. If you want to quit school you would realistically phrase it in a nicer way.
- Think what you would actually do and genuinely do that!
-If you are doing something think about ... at what point does it become more than that?
E.g. O... M... G... I just lost 1 million dollars ...
Let's break this down ...
Instructions:
1. Let's into 2 groups - A and B
2. A will stand on stage and B will sit and watch as audience first.
3. A, you are going in a doctor's waiting room.
The key word that we are going for here is BEING REAL, BEING TRUE AND COMMITTED.
You can get a chair if you need them. That's all I want you to do, to be in the doctor's waiting room.
4. (During the activity) Ding Dong ... next number is not your number.
5. Pasue
(Ask Bs) Questions
-How many of you can see this happening in real life?
-Is anything here you see that you didn't quite believe?
- Who would you be? (Can relate to?)
Feedback: At some point ... are they going to start some drama?
Aim: Get you to not act because it is so easy to prevent without any basis in the real world. And when you just pretend, it becomes a shallow performance. You don't always have to be funny, you don't always have to be dramatic.
6. Switch over, Bs goes up.
7. You are queue for the tickets to the latest hit movies. Let's say the AVENGERS.
8. It is a long queue.
I must be able to see you all.
9. Don't think just do!
10. Move forward but there are still no counter free...
11. One counter lady gets up and leave.
12. 3 more people go (name) you are now up front. You are right at the front queue, almost there.
13 Another counter lady gets up and leaves.
14. Counter lady stood up and walked out of the counter.
15. One counter opens, it is an extra counter, an extra line.
Okay ... PASUE
(Asks As) Questions
- How do you feel watching that?
Feedback:
-It is difficult to be in the moment and not want to create Drama and to not what to start something.
- I am thinking (quote example) is this going to become a thing?
Situation Improv
Instructions
1. You are strangers waiting to take an exam.
2. Take whatever props you need.
3. You are not allowed to discuss
4. Listen to each other.
Questions to actors
- What did you find difficult?
Feedback:
The audience did not know where it was until the actor's establish the scene (indirectly) through words or actions.
What was good was that the actors were working together. And accepting and incorporating each other ideas. (To be able to go with unexpected change)
Eg. A says it was an History exam but B initially thought was English exam but accepts that it was a History exam and he had studied the wrong subject.
- Interesting dynamic due to interesting characters from different spectrum.
NEXT PAIR
5. You are strangers ... in a cafe
Questions to audience
-Were you drawn into that?
NEXT PAIR
6. You are strangers sheltering from the rain.
7. When I clap, then you may speak.
-You may be drench or wet.
NEXT PAIR
8. (Same thing) You are strangers on the bus, only speak when I clap.
NEXT PAIR
9. You are strangers sunbathing!
NEXT PAIR
10. Strangers at a funeral.
No comments:
Post a Comment