Improv: Accepting Offers Corridor

Video Transcript

"So we're working on yes, and; making offers, accepting offers, and building on those offers with something connected. Right now I want to focus on an exercise called accepting offers corridors. And what I do with with a class is usually get them in two lines on either side of the playing space, and then the people at the front of the line, one side is going to step out, so I'll be at the top of that line, I'm going to step out and I'm going to make an offer. Then, Shannon's at the front of his line and what he's going to do is accept that offer as simply as possible. And remember, there's lots of kinds of offers. There's physical offers, verbal offers, character offers, emotional offers, endowments, sounds, and so on and so forth. So right now what we'll do is I'm going to make an offer, Shannon's going to accept it, and then we'll imagine that we'd switched lines or gone to the end of the opposite line and Shannon's going to make an offer and I'm going to accept it, and we're just going to go back and forth like that. What I like to do with my classes after each one is just take a look at what was the offer because offers aren't necessarily literally the line, but there can be a lot things implied and we want to make sure every part of that offer is being accepted. So let's take a look at it. (Doorbell sound.) Yes, hello, would you like some trick or treat candy? Scene. Good, excellent, so I had a character offer and a sound offer and little bit of space work, and Shannon accepted that by accepting that space work with the door and endowing back with the trick or treat stuff. So now Shannon's going to make an offer and I'm going to accept that. (Sound effects of a grenade being tripped and exploding.) Alright, so Shannon made a physical and a sound offer and I accepted it physically and soundly. He threw a grenade, I got exploded. You exploded. So, it's a simple game where you're just practicing that basic skill of making offers and accepting offers, and I like to drill through it with lots of people, taking a look at when offers are accepted and when they are blocked which is what we'll do in another segment. But this is about accepting offers corridor."