One of James' natural talents is something on the order of acting (or making a big production, or attempting to be a character, or being goofy to make someone laugh), so for the third year, we've enrolled him in a one-week camp at the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre to learn about how real actors do it. This year's class was improv, and he absolutely loved it! Here's a picture of his entire class.
Their week ended with a little show for the families, and for improv, that means playing some of the improv games. They played these kinds of games all week, but nothing we saw today was rehearsed or even planned--it was all made up as they went. The first game was "One Word Story" were they had to tell a story one person, one word at a time.
The next game was "Bus Stop." Here, the person on the left was supposed to be a normal person waiting at a bus stop, while the person on the right was supposed to be the type that would make the normal person want to leave the area. James cracked up the whole audience when he sat down next to his normal person and asked, "Will you scratch my back?"
Here is James in the same game being normal. The girl asked him a barrage of questions that he finally declared made his brain hurt.
Last was the Gibberish game. James and the seated girl were to have a conversation in gibberish. After each gibberish sentence, the girl standing would interpret what they were saying. Of course the interpretation has no need to resemble what you really think the gibberish talkers intended.
He dis great! . . . . . That's all for now.
Their week ended with a little show for the families, and for improv, that means playing some of the improv games. They played these kinds of games all week, but nothing we saw today was rehearsed or even planned--it was all made up as they went. The first game was "One Word Story" were they had to tell a story one person, one word at a time.
The next game was "Bus Stop." Here, the person on the left was supposed to be a normal person waiting at a bus stop, while the person on the right was supposed to be the type that would make the normal person want to leave the area. James cracked up the whole audience when he sat down next to his normal person and asked, "Will you scratch my back?"
Here is James in the same game being normal. The girl asked him a barrage of questions that he finally declared made his brain hurt.
Last was the Gibberish game. James and the seated girl were to have a conversation in gibberish. After each gibberish sentence, the girl standing would interpret what they were saying. Of course the interpretation has no need to resemble what you really think the gibberish talkers intended.
He dis great! . . . . . That's all for now.
Leo and Annie
Pluto (at WDW)
Stitch
