Taipei Eclectic
Science Fiction Improvisational
Theatre Sports Workshop
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Phone Bank
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Improvisors begin the scene as if they are standing in front of a bank of pay telephones - at a public location. Each improvisor may ask the audience for a professional problem, or an emotion, or an object, etc. First improvisor steps up to a phone, calls someone and begins a conversation that relates to the suggestion from the audience. After the tone and rhythm of the conversation is established, improvisor 2 does the same thing. Improvisor 1 fades out of the conversation for a while. After improvisor 2 is established, improvisor 3 calls someone, etc. This process continues until all the improvisors are on the phone. At this point, improvisors trade focus of the scene back and forth, using words, phrases, emotions, etc from each others conversations in order to temporarily take the focus of the scene. Gradually, each improvisor hangs up. Scene should be played like a chamber music piece: volume changes, speed of conversation changes, rapidity of people taking focus changes, etc.
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Email Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H., at phillips@nccu.edu.twphillips@cc.nccu.edu.tw.
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