If you work in a restaurant with a lot of kids with dolls or puppets, it’s a great way to have fun. Imagine that you it’s a voodoo doll so everything the kid does, acts on you. If he stabs with a knife, you pretend having pain. If he kisses, you stroke away the kiss. (orMeer lezen over “Voodoo doll!”
Categorie archief: Improvisation
An attitude makes the difference
Mark explains how to do the same in different ways and thus creating a character. Good knowledge to keep in a corner of the Crazy Waiters brain.
Handpuppets… without puppets
Hans Teeuwen is a Dutch humorist. Although not my kind of humour, this video (in Dutch, sorry) is funny. And there is some cursing in it, so be warned! In this video you can see how you can play with no (or little) attributes. I did it once (but I didn’t scream and certainly didn’tMeer lezen over “Handpuppets… without puppets”
Yes and..
A very famous improv comedy game is ‘Yes and…’. The first person gives a statement and the second adds something with ‘Yes and..’ Then it’s the turn to the first person and so on. It will be clear by seeing this fragment with kids who plan a party. To be honest, I don’t know ifMeer lezen over “Yes and..”
The human voice – Jean Cocteau (Ingrid Bergman)
Ingrid Bergman gives a virtuoso solo performance in this Jean Cocteau one-act called The Human Voice. The plot of this hour-long piece is a simple one: a woman, devastated after her lover leaves her for someone else, speaks to him on the phone one last time. (in the theatre and I suppose also here inMeer lezen over “The human voice – Jean Cocteau (Ingrid Bergman)”