So What's This DI "On Safari" Anyway?

Simply put: It's improvisational acting.

It's a little bit wild and a whole lot dangerous, as our DI team learns when their safari takes a disastrous turn!

Our Riddle Brook team will have 30 minutes to create a six-minute improvisational skit about a safari at the global finals in Knoxville.

Since Thanksgiving, they have been preparing for their improvs at each of the competitions they have been in to-date. Each time it's quite a bit different:

1) They have been researching and studying six different environments, one of which will be selected at random at the finals. This is "where" the safari skit takes place.

2) They also have been researching six different living inhabitants (one from each environment), and one will be chosen randomly. This is "what" is living in the environment.

3) They are also given a "disaster," and have to create an original "innovative device" that helps rescue their living inhabitant from the disaster.

The team must also establish a goal that they hope to achieve on their safari, and demonstrate at least one improvisational technique during their skit.

Oh yes, and at the last moment, they are given a randomly-selected symbol that must be integrated into their skit (they have 60 seconds to figure out how to do this before they begin).

At the regionals in Merrimack, for instance, a deer was on the Great Barrier Reef, and they had to get it back to it's natural habitat. They also had peanut butter stuck to the roofs of their mouths, and had to incorporate the symbol of a women's room into their skit!