My Mother calls spaceships

Hello Everyone - Our most recent meeting, October 30th, was improv night.  As chair Carol Dowell explained, improv allows us to open our minds to creativity.  It is a gigantic table topic night that compels you to think quickly.  The results?  Hilarious laughter and an all round good time! 

Carol had us start by engaging in conversations with each other using only questions, not statements.  If you think that is easy, just try it. 

Have you ever itched to do an infomercial?  Then you should have attended this improv night to learn how it's done.  Carol brought an odd assortment of gadgets and our job was to "sell" each one to the television audience and also to suggest a second use for it.  This was a most challenging assignment because most of us couldn't figure out what some of these strange contraptions were or how they could possibly be used.  Imagination came to the rescue.  We learned that a cat groomer could double as rabbit ears and a dish dryer could do double duty as a vegetable peeler.  For those of you born after 1975 who have never heard of rabbit ears, they were an early form of cable.  Sheelagh Rennie decided that what was originally described as a tanning light resembled the apparatus her mother uses to contact spaceships. 

Have you ever played the ongoing story game?  One person utters a line, the next person adds to it so that eventually the opening line evolves into a cohesive story.  We played that game and learned how with a word here and there, a weeping vampire turned into a plant. 

We finished with the zombie party.  Each guest assumed a strange mannerism that the "host" of the party had to guess.  Eric Solowka became twitchy, Val Koncan develped a terror of women and Theresa Murray sneezed her way through the entire skit. 

It was a tremendous amount of fun and a great way to welcome our newest member, Lesley Webb.  Lesley laughed along with the rest of us and we look forward to hearing her icebreaker speech.  We are all looking forward to another improv night.

Hope to see you all at our next meeting, November 6th.  Cheers - Lorraine Van Wagner, Webmaster