Improv Scene Dialogue

SCENE 4 - ON IMPROV

Bus scene is setting up during the improv dialogue.

LIAM 

(think teacher character for this, and you can have this written out if need be...)

Improv is a form of theatre where the actors make up the “script” in the moment.  Sometimes, like today’s performance, once these initial ideas are created, they are rehearsed over a period of time to make sure the beginning, middle and end - as every story must have these parts - is clear.  Other times the actors are told, by their audience, what they are to act out and the improvise (or make up) the scene on the spot.  Everything seen here today has been created by US.

For example....(improvise and instruct your fellow ghetto actors to get into ghetto character and then begin the dialogue below)

LIAM

What up ya’ll let’s talk improv ghetto style.

KAITLIN

Word dawg.  But I heard improv is mad hard yo.

KENNEDY

Pshhhh, it’s easy peasy.

LIAM

Improv is just taking a situation and making it up as you go.

RYAN

There’s a few rules ya gotta follow.  First one: don’t think, just do.

MORGAN

I’m good at not thinking gurl.

LIZ

Yo second rule of improv is to say: 

GROUP

Yes and ... (5 count pause Liam - remind them you're all ghetto right now) what!

DAN

That means you always go with the flow yo.

VICTORIA

Third rule of improv is to justify your actions.

DAN

That means your words and actions gotta live in harmony dog.

HANNAH

Fourth rule of improv says: be clear to your audience and your partners.

DAN

That means it gotta make sense ya’ll.

GROUP

Word.

MORGAN

The most important is to have fun ya’ll.

DAN

Yeah, but it’s time to get back to our main mission gang.