PAPER BAG
SCENES

CURTAINS UP THEATER

 
 

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  • Prepare a collection of paper bags, each containing three random objects, e.g. a brush, a roll of duct tape, and a glove.  

  • Divide the students into teams of two or three. Tell them each team will need to improvise a three minute scene using the items in the bags for props. They must use all three items, but they don’t need to use the items as the objects they are if they don’t want to, e.g., A hairbrush could become a microphone or the duct tape a bracelet. 

  • Give the teams five to ten minutes to work out their scenes. Then regather and perform for each other.


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Curtains Up Curriculum by Friends of the Groom Theater Co. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Curtains Up is a training program designed for young actors sponsored by Friends of the Groom Theater Company.
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