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Don't you love the rush of improv?
And keep playing,
William Hall
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Whenever a player in the scene says "Wow, that's neat!", the player who last spoke has to go into detail about whatever it was they were just talking about.
Note: Seems like a good training game for adding color to a scene.
This game came to us from Dave Dyson a popular San Francisco Improviser.
[Published March 8, 2010]
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Dictionary
Place one of the players in the Sound Proof Booth. And audience member randomly selections a word from the dictionary. The word it read aloud for all to hear.
The player returns form the Sound Proof Booth and rejoins his fellow improvisers. Together they play a scene.
The improvisers try to get the player to say the word naturally in the scene.
Notes:
The players can start a scene from nothing or get a suggeston from the audience for the scene.
If the players are too obvious it may not be entertaining.
See if you can make it a scene and not a guessing game. The audience will be more entertained if it's a good scene and the word is never said than if the word is said and the scene was not worth their time.
*Sound Proof Booth: This is how we do it at BATS Improv, The player turns their back to the audience, place their fingers in their ears and hum or sing out loud. Other players, not involved in the scene can stand around them and add additional singing and distractions.
[Published: February 22, 2010]
Go Ahead and
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Audience Free Associate
Players ask an audience member to free associate words and images for 30 seconds. The improvisers then create a scene incorporating as many of the words and images as they can.
Notes: Get the list of words and images before you tell the audience what you're going to do with it.
After the scene ask the audience if the improvisers left anything out. You might be suprised that they'll remember everything.
The challenge may be to create a scene from the material, not simply use the words and images.
[Published February 15, 2010]
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Players place lines from real Shakespeare plays on small pieces of paper and scatter them on the stage.
The players then play an open scene (no game) and occassionally pick kup a piece of paper and read the line incorporating it into the scene.
This game comes to us from Tom Coates who attributes it to Carl Anderson. Carl was a part of BATS Improv in San Frnacisco.
[Published February 8, 2010]
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