Improv Drama exercise 2015.2

Trio performances.

Find a place to sit with your pen and paper. Write down your earliest memory. Write by hand. Describe it, whatever you remember. Even if it is only a fragment. Keep writing until you are done.

Now underline 3 sentences that call out to you. There is no right and wrong. You just choose 3 sentences. Now pick 3 words from the 3 sentences. Circle the 3 words.

Memorize the 3 words.

Look around you. Find an object that calls out to you. It could be something related to your earliest memory or something that just calls out to you right now for whatever reason. If you can pick this object up do so and examine it. Or else touch it if you can. 

Now turn to 2 other people closest to you. Share your 3 words with your trio, show the others your object, and together create a 1-minute improvised performance using 9 words, 3 objects, and the use of the space in any way that you like. 

Options for trios:
a) each person says their 3 words using their object to gesture or moving with / alongside it and using the space any way they like. They do this in sequence, one at a time.
b) each person teaches the other 2 what their gesture or movement is along with their words which are memorized by all. Three pieces are done in sequence but each piece is performed by all 3 participants.
c) all 3 perform their piece simultaneously, spacing their words so that no one drowns out the others.
d) other

May the pulse be with you!

Abhay