1 up, in a chair. They state an unusual belief they have – preferably the opposite of something they believe like “All clothes should be ironed” “Cats are terrible” “All drinks should be room temperature”. Then the audience of students then asks them questions as if it’s a conference to specifically try and trip them up but they should stand their ground at all times. It’s not too different to premise lawyer.
Tags
All Exercises
- "Yes ... And" scene work
- 4 Experts
- 60 Seconds Of Silence
- A Round of Rhythm and Movement
- Adjective, Adjective, Name
- An lot of object work
- Bippity Bippity Bop!
- Bird Turd
- Blow Them Away
- Character Diamond
- Character Matching
- Character of the space
- Character Tagline
- Character Walk
- Character Wheel
- Cocktail Party
- Compliment / Boast
- Conducted story
- Confessions
- Creating characters from beliefs
- Deal based training wheels pretty flower
- Experts
- Fact, Opinion, False Belief
- Find yes and in a real conversation
- Focus on the wrong thing
- Follow the follower
- Follow The Follower / Sound And Movement
- Fun Accusations
- Fun Gift, Internal Why
- Game In Sketch
- Give the setup
- Good Wedding
- Haduken
- Heighten a specific trait
- Heighten to monologue
- How Did You Become A [BLANK]?
- I, You, We
- I'm Home
- Identifying information from the opening
- Initiating from monologues
- Kitty-cat career
- La Ronde
- Morning Routine
- Name Mnemonic
- Name... yes
- Object Point Of View
- One Word Emotional Reaction
- Only Numbers
- Pass The Card
- Pass the present
- Pass the snap
- Practice Tough Beginnings
- Practising A to C
- Premise Lawyer
- Protect the freak
- Quick initiation scenes
- Recognizing the first unusual thing
- Repeat the first unusual thing
- Selected Emotion Scenes
- Silent Tennis
- Snakes
- Someone ate my chocolate bunny!
- Start General, Get Specific
- Superhero / Supervillan
- Supervillan / Mastermind
- Talk about something else
- The "I am" game
- The Ad Game
- The chameleon
- The Heckler
- The Montang Jefferson
- The Samurai
- The T-Shirt Game
- Three-line scenes
- Tropes aka Mile Markers, Plot Points
- True/False statement deal
- Truthful At All Costs
- Understudies
- Understudies - Reprise
- Using people you know to create characters
- Using physical characteristics to create characters
- Using status to build a character
- Vroom!
- Where have your fingers been?
- Workplace Documentary
- Would you?
- Yes And Box
- You wanted to see me?