This is a really fun and effective exercise to teach scene structure. This exercise isn’t a rule of how to do scenes, it’s just practice, and you can play around with it a lot and work out your own variations. In reality in a show there are endless ways to do scenes, these type of exercises just open up the possibilities.<\/p>\n
Before the scene starts the improvisers are given an order and roles to do in the scene:<\/p>\n
Improviser 1 – goes on stage first and establishes a location through object work, activity and saying things out loud.<\/p>\n
Improviser 2 – steps on stage second to establish the relationship with Improviser 1 and they play the scene.<\/p>\n
Improviser 3 – enters to escalate something they see in the scene. For instance the emotion, the relationship, a pattern or game of the scene.<\/p>\n
Improviser 4 – steps on stage to end the scene. For instance by reincorporating something that has been left behind, making a connection, entering as someone who has been mentioned but not seen yet or even just saying a couple of lines as if it is the end.<\/p>\n
Repeat the exercise for a new suggestion with everyone taking different roles.<\/p>\n
The variations to this exercise are endless, and playing with them in a workshop is part of the fun. Here are a couple of recommendations:<\/p>\n
We originally learnt this from Alan Marriott and Dylan Emery at The Crunchy Frog Collective in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10350,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-26858","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n