So, Thursday, August 21st, I started my last year (hopefully) at KU. I’m taking Playwriting 1, Prehistoric Life: DNA – Dinosuars, and Earthquakes and Natural Disasters. Playwriting will be my second to last creative writing course. Of all the creative writing courses I’ve taken, this one seems like it’s going to be the most hard core. Prehistoric Life…I needed a biological science and this one doesn’t have a lab. Earthquakes and Natural Disasters is in the largest auditorium class…seating 900 students. I sit way up in the nosebleed section because it’s easier than looking up and down constantly between the notes on the screen and the notes that I attempt to take that don’t even come out very well because of the speed that the teacher insist on going. Anyway, those are the classes.
I had my first improv performance on Saturday Aug. 23rd. It went very well. We performed a Chicago style Harold. This is one with an opener, 3 scenes (1,2,3) based upon something from the opener, a group game, 3 more scenes related to scenes 1, 2 and 3 respectively of the first group. Then another group game, then a finale of the 3 scenes. The suggestion, made by a friend of mine, was pancake. Then, 3 of us (I was one of them) started off by giving a quick monologue. So the 3 of us gave a monologue based around pancakes. Then, there was the first scene and so on. I was able to invite the most friends…I needed to invite 6 to come and I wound up with 11! And one of them was my older 1/2 sister who I recently got in contact with but met for the first time that night.
By the way, I can’t wait until I get to do more improv.
