Jono Starsmore (
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fandomtownies2013-02-07 08:01 am
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Improv Class, The Boards, Thursday Evening
"Good evening, class," Jono greeted, giving the people assembled for tonight's improv class a nod. "Today, we're going to be playing a game called In-A, With-A, While-A, which is, essentially, what happens when you take three ridiculous prompts and you piece them together to create a scenario. It's fairly straightforward make-believe from there."
He nodded down to a trio of top hats that he'd pulled from the props room. They were going to need them for Being Frank anyway, he figured he might as well use them here, too.
"One hat has your setting," he explained, pulling out a strip of paper. "In this particular case, in a hotel room. The next has whatever imaginary object is there with you - a tuba, now. And the last, playing hopscotch, is the activity that you're doing while you're there. It's up to you and your partner to figure out some way the three things can be turned into as coherent a scene as you can make it."
He kind of liked this one for as absolutely random as it could get.
"So, pair off, and go be ridiculous."
[Open!]
He nodded down to a trio of top hats that he'd pulled from the props room. They were going to need them for Being Frank anyway, he figured he might as well use them here, too.
"One hat has your setting," he explained, pulling out a strip of paper. "In this particular case, in a hotel room. The next has whatever imaginary object is there with you - a tuba, now. And the last, playing hopscotch, is the activity that you're doing while you're there. It's up to you and your partner to figure out some way the three things can be turned into as coherent a scene as you can make it."
He kind of liked this one for as absolutely random as it could get.
"So, pair off, and go be ridiculous."
[Open!]

Re: The Stage!
Dude, he totally just floated. Or maybe he'd had his feet on the ground and was just miming it? Okay, she was going to convince herself of that one. It was saner.
She cleared her throat and tried not to drop character.
"Oh, my space darling," she said, arcing her hands in a circle over her head. "If we lose the playoffs, what will become of our love?"
Now, everyone watch Lizzie attempt to walk on her tippie-tippie-toes! Hint: it will not end well.
Re: The Stage!
"If we lose the playoffs, I'm afraid we'll have to put off all further romance... until next hockey season." The horror. "All there is for it is to spend all of our time training."
A beat.
"In space."
Re: The Stage!
"Damn space-hockey!" she cried. "Damn the playoffs! And damn the omniscient disembodied space-head of Wayne Gretzky, under whose all-seeing eye we must toil, day and night!"
Re: The Stage!
Yes, a bit like a sack of potatoes.
"This is the price we pay... for space-hockey."
It was a difficult life, really.
Re: The Stage!
"Sometimes, my space-darling," she sighed, "sometimes, I dream of running away."
She was going to kick her legs in a way that mimed running away. Slow-motion.
"From space."
Re: The Stage!
"But... where would you run? What world would you run to, where hockey could no longer impede our love?"
He turned in a slow circle as she kicked her legs. Because... that seemed appropriately ballet-ish.
Re: The Stage!
"Space-Ecuador?" she suggested. "Warm climates probably make for crappy hockey teams."
And then she did some fluttery things with her arms. Elegant, okay.
Re: The Stage!
"I hear Space-Ecuador is very nice this time of year," Jono replied, up on one foot and kicking his other leg out to the side.
That he could get it that high was pretty impressive.
That he could hold it there to the count of ten was pretty impressive, too.
"I'm afraid I don't know any Space-Spanish, though."
Re: The Stage!
"We wouldn't have space-hockey to keep our nights aglow. I am the Space Princess, I have a duty to my space citizens! And to the Sacred Puck!"
Re: The Stage!