on august 28th, my last night with the superhero bike ride at sofi's, we had a wonderful bonding experience through ridiculous improv theatre. there is a tradition on the superhero bicycle ride called 'dice of destiny' in which we roll two dice and find an activity, written on a list in our journal, that has the corresponding number. some of the other activities we did were: 'speak in a foreign accent for the next 24 hours', 'exquisite corpse', and 'fashion parade'. this time it was to perform our backstory, or how we got our superhero power, through improv theatre. a couple of the superheroes who were more experienced with this kind of thing figured out how it could be done...
we were asked to write off-the-wall phrases of exclamations on a few slips of paper. all were put into a hat. while the two actors were on stage, given a setting and action to start with, the audience could call out any time the action seemed wanting, "HELLO!", and one actor would pick a slip of paper and read it out loud. this would add an element of the ridiculous to an already ridiculous performance. none of the stories made any sense. this was the best kind of comedy and we all had some good laughs. i was amazed that when we got up on stage, even shy little me, we seemed to transcend our ordinary personalities. some people got REALLY into it.
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