Improv ideas?

Question:I am in a 8th grade drama class and we are creating a scene for other classmates to be in. They scene needs a conflict and we can use props and that sort of stuff. My teacher gave us the idea of a hairdresser being blind. So it is that sort of thing. The scene needs to have 2 people in it and it doesn't matter what gender the people are. Thanks for any ideas or sites that you can give me!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am in a 8th grade drama class and we are creating a scene for other classmates to be in. They scene needs a conflict and we can use props and that sort of stuff. My teacher gave us the idea of a hairdresser being blind. So it is that sort of thing. The scene needs to have 2 people in it and it doesn't matter what gender the people are. Thanks for any ideas or sites that you can give me!

I'd say figure out a relationship first. You've got two people, so the relationship could be father/son, mother/daughter, waitress/customer, doctor/patient, doctor/nurse, lawyer/client, boss/employee, police officer/criminal, husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, landlord/tenant, brother/sister. I think it's best if the two characters already know each other when the scene starts.

Once you've decided on a relationship, any conflict will do. It can be related tot the relationship or not. It can be a conflict between the two people, or it can be a conflict they work together to solve. Try not to make it a simple fight or disagreement, like a boyfriend and girlfriend getting in an argument over what movie to see. Scenes about disagreements never go anywhere; they're entertaining for about 30 seconds, and then they just get repetitive and dumb.

If your relationship is waitress/customer, the conflict could be that the restaurant is all out the soup the customer ordered. If it's husband and wife, the conflict could be a flat tire on the way to Easter brunch. Whatever the conflict is, the goal of the scene is to solve the conflict. Again, don't let it turn into an argument; arguments go nowhere.