Storytelling
Theatre is essentially storytelling and improvisers have to come up with stories on the spot.
- Seven-sentence story structure
Most stories can be boiled down to seven basic sentences. These sentences begin like this:
Once upon a time….
And every day…
Until one day…
And because of that…
And because of that…
Until finally…
And from that day…
- Groups of 7/8 sit in a circle and come up with one sentence from the story structure each. If you have more than 7 students you can just begin from the first sentence again once you reach the eight student.
- Once you’ve done this you can broaden the exercise and take away the 7-sentence restriction, allowing students to tell the story in as many sentences as they like.
- Direct a story. How? Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuo02_NC0U