🎤Try-Hard

Setup and Launch

Try-Hard can be performed solo or with a team of improvisers. In the solo version one performer takes every role.

Ask the audience for a public-speaking situation. Example: virtually everyone is afraid of public speaking, right? So what's a situation you have found yourself in that you had to speak publicly?

Explain to the audience how the stage is split up. Three zones:

• Center stage is where the public speaker performs the speech. This is the external.
• Stage right is where the internal monologue of the public speaker happens. This is the internal.
• Stage left is where the audience for the public speech exists. There may be one or more audience members in the scene. This is the audience.

Flow

All stage positions should play straight out to the audience. The scene should start center stage. Stage left and stage right react to what is said by center stage.

• The external. Just the speech, however confident or bold that public speech needs to be. The presentation is the key of this element.
• The internal. The chaos happening in the speaker's mind as they deliver their remarks. The emotions and feelings are the keys of this element.
• The audience. They react in ways that live in the distance between the external presentation and the internal feelings of the speech.