European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Members of Albert s children clockwise from upper right senior airman Scott Horn airman 1st class David White staff sgt. Cheree Bessent airman 1st class Tom Geoghegan Sandy Sample Craig Downing and sgt. Jim Smeltzer. When Albert Einstein and his words of Wisdom provide inspiration for the improvisational group. Albert s children take the stage everything goes a amps photos by Dave Caseby Deedee Arrington Doke assistant City editor when the lights go up on Albert s children not even the cast knows in to what will happen.  see a fake suit Ideh i member of the travelling theater troupe caused by ingesting imaginary blinking Christmas tree lights. Or they might hear a nonsensical Story about platypus jello. Some daring viewers jolted in their seats by a surge of creative Energy May join the action themselves to deliver the Purn i line to a human tableau. Quot get enough crazy people in one spot and anything can happen Quot said stall sgt. Cheree Bessent 26, of the 58.3rd medical so at Hahn a Germany and one of Albert s children. Improvisational theater is the Hahn troupe s Stock in Trade for their Madcap spectacles. Named in Honor of Albert Einstein the group also takes from the German born physicist its motto Quot imagination is More important than knowledge Quot a concept they test at ear h performance. Although exact quips and movements Arentt rehearsed most performances follow a Basic formula of improvisational exercises that blend physical and verbal comedy. Quot but even within that format things ran c Hange Quot said sgt. Jim Smeltzer 28, of the 6611th elec tronic Security so. Quot we try not to plan anything. If we planned anything out too hard we would t be True to ourselves or our  the troupe members generally meet about once a week at Hahn High school to hone their wits develop their sense Lor on the spot gags and practice pratfalls. Punch lines get easier to whip out after lots of exercise but As Bessent emphasized Quot we practice but we c an t  a typical show lasts about 90 minute s. It will include such exercises As Quot freeze and go Quot for instance which is basically a collection of Short takes involving two or More players. Each is punctuated with a punch line and bodies Quot freeze into co medically suggestive poses when a cast member on the sidelines seizes the moment to interrupt eject one of the players from the tableau then deliver the next appropriate punch line and so on. In another of the group s exercises the c ast invites the audience to choose two words. The players build sentences around the two words with each of the cast members contributing one word at a Lime. A cast member who Breaks one of the word Days rules such As using Quot and Quot in the it sentence must then leave the game in a burst of Black humor choosing his or her favored form of suicide and miming it. By last count the players reported a repertoire of 220 different deaths including hanging by Anvil and olympic javelin catching. Their humor in t for everyone. But As Faye Karas program director for Hahn s recreation Center pointed out Albert s c Hildren generally appeals to "more1 of a cult  their material she Cone Edes is Quot unusual. You can t say exactly what it s going to be  or who s going to appear on a Given night. A cast of changing c Harac ters has rotated in and out of the group Over its rough three years cat existence and the number of Albert s children varies with every show depending on who s available. Quot we have1 seven people Here to Mertoun 8 stripes Magazine january 30, 1992 a