Stand, Sit, Bend

• Type: Improv, Creativity, Teamwork

• Setup:  A chair on stage.

• Procedure:

• 1.  Ask three players to take the stage.

• 2.  Ask one player to stand, one player to sit in the chair, and one player to bend over.

• 3.  They are to improvise a scene (from an audience or teacher suggestion) where one person must be either standing, sitting or bending over at all times. (Example of a scene: Two students who are being disciplined after school by their teacher)

• 4.  If any one person changes their position during the scene, the other two must compensate. At any given point there must be someone standing, sitting and bending.

• 5.  As the students get better at this game, encourage them to justify their positions as they change throughout the scene.

• VARIATION:

• -  If at any moment two players are in the same position consider ringing a bell to help warm them (or give this job to a student in the audience)…they must immediately adjust.

• NOTE:

• -  This game is best for older/advanced students.

• -  This game used to often be played on the TV show “Whose Line Is it Anyway?”