We had a lesson to find out the difference between actions, reactions and decisions. One way doing this, we looked at practitioner, Mike Alfred's theories and found his way of finding these specific things. "Words are just vehicles for emotion" was what he believed in. He believed that in order to find the truth with the emotion you need to find the truth in the words and let them drive you to a truthful scenario. He also felt that being in the moment; listening, reacting and being truthful was the key essence to a positive performance.
In order for us to get an understanding of this theory we had to do a couple of activities that would get us in this kind of moment.
Clap Tag - a game where you would start with two people in the middle and everyone around them in a circle. The aim was to make the scene as truthful as possible, making it clear that you were listening, reacting and deciding when it was our time to be involved. If it wasn't clear that you were being truthful someone who believed they could bring the scene back to truth would clap and someone would have to leave the scene.
What I learnt was that you shouldn't do improvisations for laughs, be truthful and slowly formulate your relationship, character and location within a scene.
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