Ethan and I are hosting an improv games afternoon tomorrow. It's been a long time since I've done one, so I'm both excited and a little nervous -- will people get into it? Will they have fun
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I really like to watch "scratch that", which I've heard called "rewind".
I've also seen one that I liked in which the players' objective was to get offstage. They're stranded in the desert: "I'll go look for water!" "No, don't go that way, there are snakes! I'll make a phone call... Hmm, not getting good signal, lemme try from the top of that hill." "Wait! Don't forget your hat." etc.
I also like N-line vocabulary, in which you only have N lines you can say; I played a character in a one-shot once with this quirk, and it worked really well. As an improv game, I've seen it on Whose Line with three players, two of whom have two or three line vocabularies, while the third is unconstrained, and it's probably funnier if the third is good at steering the conversation so that the first two end up with particularly funny lines.
Sounds like fun! Do it at Alumni Weekend some year? :^)
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you can play "genres" where you have to do a scene in a specific genre like soap opera or scifi channel and then switch.
There's one I've seen where one referee chimes in to make the current actor edit what they're doing until they get something good.
there's the party guest where one person is the "host" and they have to guess what each party guest's secret or occupation is.
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I've also seen one that I liked in which the players' objective was to get offstage. They're stranded in the desert: "I'll go look for water!" "No, don't go that way, there are snakes! I'll make a phone call... Hmm, not getting good signal, lemme try from the top of that hill." "Wait! Don't forget your hat." etc.
I also like N-line vocabulary, in which you only have N lines you can say; I played a character in a one-shot once with this quirk, and it worked really well. As an improv game, I've seen it on Whose Line with three players, two of whom have two or three line vocabularies, while the third is unconstrained, and it's probably funnier if the third is good at steering the conversation so that the first two end up with particularly funny lines.
Sounds like fun! Do it at Alumni Weekend some year? :^)
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