Sentence Scenes

Sentence Scenes is an improvisation activity.

This activity, best done with a (relatively) small number of delegates, requires the attendance to be divided into small groups or into pairs. Each group or pair is given a setting (i.e., Miami Beach, a nightclub in Spain, etc) and each person is given a certain number of sentences (usually three) from a bank or from the delegates (for instance, you can ask the delegates to each write three sentences before the exercise begins, shuffle them, and use them as your "sentence bank").

Each group is given the stage at a given point in time and they improvise a scene. The activity manager might either chose to have them take out the sentences as he or she calls each of their names, or to have them chose when to take out their sentences. Whoever takes out a sentence is to say it immediately as the character he or she is representing. From the moment he or she said the sentence, his character actually just did and the scene adapts to continue as including that sentence and all before it.