(38-40) Will you go to a show if you can’t find out what you’re going to see? Well, maybe
not. But this is what improvisations are like. The theater or the actors can’t tell you what
the show is about because they themselves don’t know yet! Improvisations aren’t like other
theater shows. Actors don’t have words to remember or parts to practice before the show.
In fact, there isn’t a plan at all.
So what story do the actors act out? In one kind of improvisation, actors first invite
people who come to see the show to tell their stories. It could be dreams they had last night,
or things that just happened to them. Soon after the actors collect enough ideas, they begin
acting. Sometimes, during the show, they even invite someone up to sing with them! It is
exciting for both the actors and people who watch the show because every show is different,
and because, we could also say, they make the show together.
Are you interested? Well, lucky for you, Taiwan’s theaters also have improvisation
shows, so why not go and check them out!
【題組】39. What can we learn about improvisations from the reading?
(A) How long an improvisation usually is.
(B) Where the story of an improvisation is from.
(C) Who first had the idea of making improvisations.
(D) When the first improvisation was given in the theater.