Improv: Accepting Scene Exercise

Video Transcript

"We're working on yes and, on making offers and accepting offers and building on those offers with something connected. This next activity called accepting scene or accepting offers is just that. We're going to play a scene where we're really just trying to accept every offer that's played out. But, instead of just doing one or two at a time, we're going to keep going back and forth accepting each other's offers and see where it leads us. And then we can take a look at it and see if we accepted each other's offers. This is a fun exercise to do. I used to have everybody in pairs around the room just play out a little scene where they're just getting more and more practice accepting each other's office, offers. So, if you do it office it's a different kind of thing, usually when people retire. So, let's see what happens when Shana going to make an opening offer and I'm going to accept his offer and build on it. Hey look, it's grandma's will. It is grandmas will and it says you'll get all the stuff. Yeah, I get all the stuff that she's going to leave to us and I guess it means you don't get anything. I don't get anything because she's mad at me. Grandmas mad at you because you never came and visited her in the hospital. I didn't visit her in the hospital cause I was too scared. You were pretty scared because grandma was kind of sick. You did visit her though because you were brave. I was brave and now I get all the money grandma left behind. Oh, do you think you'll share any of it? Sure, cause I know that you'll come visit me when I'm not feeling very well. I could try. That would be very brave. Alright, scene. So that was just a simple scene where we're trying to accept every idea that was put out there. Whether, and you can see that not all of the ideas were necessarily positive. So, I created the idea that I was cut out of the will and Shannon did a good idea of accepting that. Of saying, yeah, you didn't get anything in the will and it's because you didn't go visit her in the hospital. So there's a difference between accepting each other's ideas and playing nice or making everything okay with every offer. You can still accept ideas and have conflict in the scene. It's about accepting the information that's being put forward and reacting in a normal human way. So that's a little bit of accepting each other's offers or playing an accepting scene."