Improv II Day 1
Terrific day, I must admit I was a bit nervous wondering if the past year has been good enough for Improv rehearsals and shows to jump right in to a Level II class at Second City, but once I got into it, things were great. A few early mess-ups taught me immediately what NOT to do, as we are building short scenes as part of a Long Form basic.
The instructor worked us on “Overlapping Yesses;” teams of two players, a scene is started, and the other player has to jump in with an agreement as well as a Heightening Statement, immediately (if not sooner). The faster you can each do this back to each other, the better. Surprising how quickly you move into the ebb and flow of the game.
Then we did Ad Game and teach introduced “Pimping the Player” in which he created several extremely demanding and specific items for us to name, and everyone had to follow up with immediately positive responses. For example, we were a marketing team selling a blender to African American Australia teenagers, and I had to immediately come up with the “Name of a famous actor from Australia who is a Latina.” My nonsense response was “Crocodilia Nina,” and the entire team responded with positive asnwers. We ended with a Gregorian Chant theme song. It was wonderful. Looking forward to day 2!
