Improvising

For the past 5 months or so, we have been taking improv classes. This all started with our friend Carla introducing us to improv whilst she was visiting earlier in the year. She had taken a class a long time ago whilst in the US and during the most recent visit she took another class and invited us to a performance. It was really fun and let me tell you we really had no idea how HARD improvising is! We took two series of classes, the first one was more games and the second went into long format improvising. I really liked the second series better. At the end of the second series (which makes it last monday) we had a small performance where we performed two types of long form improvisation: The harold (which pairs up two people and it's like flipping channels, we see a bit of scene 1 and then the second pair of people wipe the first pair off the stage and we see some of their scene etc. it wraps around. The second type was the montage which was a series of small scenes made up of random groups of any size.

In the harold, surprisingly A and I got paired up together but I must say we didn't do too bad (we have done a lot worst together)! The suggestion from the crowd was cupcakes and A used that and another suggestion from the crowd (robots) to create scene about me and him being robots trying to eradicate mankind by poisoning people with cupcakes :-P The second set I managed to use my pregnancy to good effect in one scene by pretending to be the pregnant mistress of some guy!

It was really a fun time and we all did a lot better than i expected. Now days A and I really appreciate any improv work!!