Improvisation

In every theatre class we play some improvisation exercises,  that helps our ability to think and be creative. As a class we did a game called freeze, where one person puts two people in the front of the room and can assemble them however they want to. For example someone puts my partner and I in a position where it looks like we are playing a sport, like basketball. We have to act out the action and one of the audience members shout freeze. What they have to do is replace one of the people doing the actions and come up with a whole new scenario. So if someone shouts freeze and then the people hold their actions, one other person replaces them and continues the action to maybe being a cooking scene. This is ongoing until everyone has had a turn. Another exercise we do is that the teacher gives us a scenario for example a beach and then we have to act it out. People can become objects in that place or just be people, but it has to fit with the scene. So a beach, one person can lie down and be a towel, another person can become an umbrella etc, just all the things you can find in that place. I found the frist freeze exercise more challenging since you have to wait for the person to do a motion you would want to put yourself in so it can be easy to change the scene because you have to be quick. I'd wait until three or two people go first before I make an attempt. I found the scenario improvisation much easier, since the teacher just gives you a place more likely that you know of, and I just then think about things that I'd find there or what people do.