Article: STORYTELLING EXERCISE BLOSSOMS INTO `THE SYRINGA TREE' AT ACT.(What's Happening)

A story exercise. What's a story exercise?

``Well, you turn to the person next to you,'' says actress/playwright Pamela Gien. ``And you tell whatever story pops into your head. No censorship. Something that happened in the bank that morning. Something that happened long ago when you were a child.''

What popped into Gien's mind during that particular acting class was an incident that happened long ago when she was a child. ``Something that, really, I had no desire to think about, let alone talk about. But there it was. So I turned to the fellow next to me, and out it came.''

That was about two years ago in Santa Monica. The teacher was Larry ...

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