Challenge: Invent an Improv Game based on the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate.
I sent the challenge to followers on Facerbook and Twitter.
Here are the responses:
Joop Vinke in the Netherland:
Today my students were watching the wedding when I entered the class and I let them do three excercises on it
1. William offers his Sarah [Kate] a present.. She accepts it and tells what it is and William explains the reasons why he gave it
2. Sarah [Kate] offers him too a present to and tells him (with a given emotion) why she thinks this marriage won't last long
3. Both make the agreement just to do as if nothing happens and walk together out of the church.. (in different given styles)
It was a wonderful lecture with of course a relation towards the subject of the lecture: Firing people and how to deal with own and others emotions :-)
Warm regards from The Netherlands!!
[Note: Joop teaching at the Arnhem Business School]
Holly Thorsen in San Francisco, California
You could do the royal wedding version of slo-mo commentary. Ask the audience for one of the obscure traditions of a royal wedding as your activity and have the commentators explain it all in british accents as other improvisors act it out. Everything's fun with accents!
Tara McDonough in Portland Maine
Make up an obscure tradition (or maybe that's what you mean, Holly?) Or perhaps something involving over-blown and incomprehensible British accents, and translation?
Kevin Bohnert in San Francisco, California [The Streetlight People Improv Group]
How about a backwards epic long-from? First line is "I do", and last line is "It's a boy!" when William (Harry? whatever his name is) is born.
Janie Summers of Sebastopol, California
A secret endowment wedding scene where the audience offers some obscure reason why the ceremony (sorry, cerremny) can't continue (the king/queen can't sleep without a dozen corgys, a never before brand of speech impediment, a hat sexual problem, an extra pinky inherited from anne boleyn). prevail?
Richard Laible of Chicago, Illinois [Laible Productions]
The game is called "I do...to much!" It is a oneupmanship game where the bride and groom are reciting their vows (I would get a topic or two that have to be woven into the game) back and forth and have to "better" the last vow said.person. Example: I will take out the trash. The winner is when the last person falters and a new bridge/groom takes their place.
Joshua Nicols from Fullerton, California [The Lobby Improv]
Royal Party Quirks
From the audience you get 3 random nouns and celebrities.
Its a guessing game, where the guests of the wedding need to be announced. The announcer observes their conversation and behavior and when they figures it out he says "Ladies and Gentelmen, the Earl of (Noun) and his guest (celebrity)."
They snootily move along into the party. And the next couple walks in.
Francine Wolf of Clearwater, Florida [ZaZu Productions] via twitter
A line of players, jump in with three sentences-guests you wouldn't expect at the wedding saying things you would never hear.
Dan Beeston of Brisbane, Australia. [Smart Enough] via twitter
Easy. What is a Royal Wedding if not the Ultimate Status swap. Go in Commoner, go out Royal. Do a Status Transfer.
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