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Right now, I’m working with my improv students on a game called “Changes.” This is where you do a scene, and the director shouts “change,” and you have to change your last line. Here’s an example:
I wish my students were so good. I wish I were so good. But practice makes you better. (I don’t believe in perfect improv, so practicing changes is what we do.) It’s fun to practice. There is a lot of laughing, and it’s ridiculous.
But changing is actually a lot harder than these professionals make it look. My students struggle because