Improv Grad Show

My Level 1 class had the "graduation performance" yesterday. It actually went very well indeed. Our last couple of class sessions were much more productive, with people making big strides in their comfort level on stage. The instructor broke out a great exercise for the last class on Saturday. We did a straight scene about a guy who discovers his roommate slept with his girlfriend. Then, we played the same scene again, basically repeating all the lines we could remember, but this time the girlfriend scenario was replaced with "you ate my frozen pizzas". It was a great lesson in substitution and playing the truth of what you know with high stakes. The instructor also did some side-coaching in other scenes that helped a lot. For the show, we divided into two groups. Each group did 3 monologues and about 20 minutes of scenework. Overall, I was very impressed with the results. I had a lot of fun and I think everyone else seemed to enjoy getting out there and doing it.