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Laughter is a powerful tool for helping students manage their reactions to interpersonal conflicts. The actors use age-appropriate topics drawn from current events, teacher suggestions or hot-button issues raised by students themselves to create scenarios in which they—and their student assistants—must improvise a solution to the conflict. Students learn how to monitor their emotional responses and assess which strategy, among many possibilities, would be the most effective to diffuse a particular situation.
Laughing Matters
Laughing Matters formed in 1985 out of its members' collective love of improvisational acting.
Tommy Futch, Ryan Girard, Jamie Moore, Marc Farley, Amber Nash, Tara Ochs, Perry Frost, Betty Hart and Eve Krueger make up Laughing Matters. Their backgrounds ranging from teaching improv to all ages to acting on stage, film and television to serving as Director of Improvisation at a local theatre.
Laughing Matters' mission is to entertain, educate, and enlighten while providing a fun and interactive environment.
No matter which path that brought them to improv, the members of Laughing Matters move audiences with their creative minds, their flexible brains and bodies, and their ability to adapt to any situation and find humor in it.
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Grade Level:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Program Type:
Assembly
Audience Limit:
250
Duration:
45 minutes
Requirements:
Sound system plus two microphones (on stands or headsets); water for actors
Cost:
Single Assembly: $335
Two Back To Back Assemblies: $460
Three Back To Back Assemblies: $590
Four Back To Back Assemblies: $710
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