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Switching emotions
Updated On: 08 November, 2009 07:49 AM IST | | Arun Janardhan
A workshop called 'Improv' teaches students to crack silly jokes, tell stories and create funny scenes... all out of thin air
A workshop called 'Improv' teaches students to crack silly jokes, tell stories andu00a0 create funny scenes... all out of thin air
It's a contest between four people, where the jokes keep coming and the "points don't matter".
Comedian Drew Carey along with now household names like Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady and Greg Proops made it famous in India in the show Whose Line Is It Anyway. Improvisation is now getting closer home by jumping out of the television and onto the stage.
At the P L Deshpande hall in Prabhadevi recently, 18 participants got together for an improvisation workshop, to laugh, crack silly jokes, practice teamwork based on trust and generally indulge in a "twot" (total waste of time). For four straight hours every evening, from Monday to Saturday, it was not just fun but gritty hard work as well for the contestants who paid Rs 3,500 for 24 hours of training.
The group assembled under the watchful grin of improviser-trainer Adam Dow of the Seattle Theatersports, people ranging across ages, from 20-somethings to 45 plus. Many of them actors from the world of cinema, theatre, television others from diverse professions construction, banking, human resources and telecom.
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