Improvisation Situations:

Now that you have a better understanding of stage directions, it is time to practice putting those directions into action via improvisation.  First, choose an improvisation scenario below.  Then, practice for about 3 minutes with a partner using the stage directions that you have learned about. You will be evaluated using the rubric below.  

A Restaurant customer is complaining to his waiter about a hamburger he ordered.

Two friends are looking at the basketball team cut list that is posted on the door of the school gym.

The security guard in a jewelry store stops a customer and asks to look in his jacket pocket.

Two patients are waiting in a dentist’s waiting room.

Two painters are painting a room

Two Students are in the Library working on a research paper together.

A woman is in a nail salon having her nails done by a manicurist.

A teenager who has been grounded is attempting to sneak out of the house.  Just as he is about to leave his parent walks in the room.

A parachuting instructor is about to give a student the signal to make the first jump.

A homeowner answers his front door and finds a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.

Two Students are waiting outside the principal’s office because they have been in a fight.

A singer and his piano accompanist are discussing the possibility of including some new songs in their act.

Two construction workers are building the foundation for a house when they discover a treasure chest.

A Doctor wants to inject his patient with a string pain killer, the patient is in extreme pain.

A police officer sees an adult trying to break into a locked car.

Two people on the sidewalk simultaneously reach for a 20$ bill lying on the ground.

A teenager with a radio that is blaring loud rock music sits down on a bus near an elderly person.

Two friends are lying out on the beach.

You are saying goodbye to someone you love at the airport.

A prisoner in jail is talking to a jailor.

You are a foreign exchange student staying at the home of a family that speaks no English. This is your first dinner together.

A gym teacher holding a folded piece of paper runs into one of his students in the hall.

Two friends are at a party when they notice the time.  It is way past their curfew.

A supermarket cashier notices another cashier stealing money from the register.