Improv skills can translate to social and professional skills
Your word is creamed corn. With that prompt, the common room inside Dunster House transformed into a barnyard as Elise Chenevey ’22 and Frank Garland ’20, members of Harvard College’s Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), acted out a comedic scene of a city-dwelling niece visiting her uncle’s farm. “I’m glad to have you here, Annie,” Garland said in a Southern drawl as he operated some kind of invisible churn. “I’ve always said the farm sure could use a helper, and having my own niece here with her city skills, well, sure does wile away the time, I’ll tell you that.” “Yeah, well, you know, I didn’t have [anyplace] else to go since my parents’ divorce so… thank you for having me, Uncle Ed? I guess,” Chenevey said, her character clearly uninterested in being there. “Well, sure thing,” Garland responded cheerily. “I think there’s nothing better to take a little girl’s mind off her own woes...