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Improv Improvement 7 ENTERTAINMENT
Bucks-news.com
The week of September 24, 2013
Some of last year’s improv club members as they rehearse for one of their then upcoming Spring peformances
BY: DEREK FRAZIER Centurion Staff
What if you were told to act out a play, only there were no props, no lines and you had to come up with your own character in a matter of minutes? Hilarity ensues- especially when you are a part of Bucks’ Improv club. Reminiscent of an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” students create scenarios and characters for each other and
act out scenes, which in most cases leave the audience in stitches. The Improv club also serves as an outlet for Bucks students to escape the academic stress of college life. The president of the Improv Club, Andrew Frasier, 21, said that improvisational acting is a way to express yourself in acting without using props or scripts in a scene. Instead you use your body as your prop.
“Improv is another way of fun comedy acting with games. These games are meant to help you with being comfortable in front of an audience or group of people,” Frasier says. The club meetings usually consist of games, trust, stress relief exercises and improvised skits meant to help actors think on their feet. An all-time favorite game the actors play in the club is one known as “Zip Zap
Zop.”In the game a group of actors stand in a circle and use pointing gestures and the phrases zip, zap and zop to improve on eye-contact and reacting to statements and gestures in a quick manner. Fraser said the main goal of Improv Club is to "expand your mind in acting and have fun while doing it.” “It also allows students to just be able to act without fear of being judged.” Future plans for the club in-
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clude the club’s yearly production called “Bucks Live,” a two-day event that includes sketches developed by members of the Improv Club. A definite date for this year’s production has not been announced. Meetings for the Improv Club are on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Gallagher Room. For more information, please contact Bill McLaughin at mclaughw@bucks.edu.
THE WEEK IN TV/MOVIES/MUSIC/BOOKS TV
Tuesday 9/24 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D - ABC - 8:00 NICS: Los Angeles - CBS - 9:00 Chicago Fire - NBC - 10:00 Wednesday 9/25 The X Factor - FOX - 8:00 Criminal Minds - CBS - 9:00 Nashville - ABC - 10:00
Thursday 9/26 The Big Bang Theory - CBS - 8:00 Glee - FOX - 9:00 Grey’s Anatomy - ABC - 10:00
Friday 9/27 Undercover Boss - CBS - 8:00 America’s Next Top Model - CW - 9:00 Haven - Syfy - 10:00 Sunday 9/29 Once Upon A Time - ABC - 8:00 Family Guy - FOX - 9:00 The Mentalist - CBS - 10:00 Monday 9/30 Bones - FOX - 8:00 2 Broke Girls - CBS - 9:00 Castle - ABC - 10:00
“Doctor Sleep”
Written By: Steven King
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Release Date: 24 September
THEATER
MOVIES
MUSIC
Gravity (PG-13)
Two astronauts (Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) find themselves stranded on a space station after a disastrous accident wipes out the crew and most of the structure.
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney Release Date: 4 October
DVD
World War Z (PG-13)
Retired U.N. investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family are sitting in what appears to be a typical Philadelphia traffic jam when helicopters began to circle ominously overhead, and an explosion throws the city into panic. Soon, it becomes a race around the world to halt a global zombie pandemic.
Directed by: Marc Forster Starring: Brad Pitt, James Badge Dale, Matthew Fox Release Date: 17 September
BOOKS
“The Quest”
Written by: Nelson DeMille
From the locked archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely trio begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. Two journalists and a beautiful photographer are traveling together in a broken down Jeep while covering the 1975 Ethiopian civil war. Both men fall in love with the woman and that complicates things.
Release Date: 17 September
Drake
New Album “Nothing Was The Same” 24 September
Kings of Leon
New Album “Mechanical Bull” 24 September
Dr. Dog
New Album “B-Room” 1 October
“Kate: The Future Queen” Written by: Katie Nicholl
This book gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming Duchess Catherine of Cambridge in 2011, Middleton has captivated royals fans around the world and now, Nicholl delivers the story of her early life, first romances, and love with Prince William. Nicholl will reveal new details on Middleton’s initiation into royal life and, of course, her first pregnancy.
Release Date: 17 September