THEATER IMPROVISATION TRAINING

6 08 2008

The objective of my mission is to help this group of 11 persons in their work off acting. Indeed i have 3 working axis:

- How to positionnate their voices

- moving in an area

- expression off differents feelings

For it, i make them making several exercises everyday to make them progress step by step, according to the needs of each.

I evalue this 3 elements by making them working in some small improvisations. Indeed i give them a subject and they have to create a scene .Alone, a group of 2, 4 or

all together.

Exercises:

Examples

· The group make a circle and they pronunciation clearly and precisely the « a e i o u » with the good way

· Space’s movements: working by crying, by laughing, like an old person

· Exercises of the mirror: work on their concentration and the

· Mime by making some faces for example

Different Improvisation’s scene:

  • A political speech
  • Scene in a hospital
  • Scene in a bus
  • Seller and buyer of different things: magic soap, a pen, a cell
  • phone, magic shoes, and after the seller become the buyer
  • Tell a story, love story, by singing and dancing
  • The phone exercises 2 persons discuss on the phone:

One wants to hang up and the other one has to continue to talk

because she doesn’t t want to hang up

Working of two scenes of the the play on Moliere “The little Wife’s School”

I have asked them to tell me the story of this scene, to definite exactly their characters, the emotions and also to associate this characters with an animal.

It s really interesting to see the result off their job! How they progress, the cohesion of the Group and how every person takes their place in this group.