Improv Games

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Improv Games#1

Posted: 4/17/07 at 5:30pm

In one of my classes at school, we do improv occasionally and I came up with a few games to play. Here's what I have:

Song Titles (you can only speak in, yes, song titles.)
Questions Only (same except you speak in questions)
Party Quirks (the one where someone host the party while 3 other people pretend to be things and the host guesses what they are)
Whose Line (people act out a scene and the audience writes lines for them to throw in during the scene)

Can you think of any others? They need to be appropriate for a high school class.

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Updated On: 4/17/07 at 05:30 PM

[StickToPriest]

re: Improv Games#2

Posted: 4/17/07 at 5:40pm

Script Game: Two actors perform a scene. But one actor has a play in his hand and everything he says must come from the script.

Two times Two: Two actors perform a scene. But each actor has two lines (written on pieces of paper) that they must pull out of their pocket at different times during the scene and say.

Human Props: Two actors perform a scene with two other actors acting as their props.

Typewriter: An actor writes a story with other actors acting it out. You can erase and rewrite if necessary (if an actor or the typist does something the typist wishes to change).

Ding: Two to four actors perform a scene. There is one diner. the dinger says ding whenever s/he wants the last person who spoke to change what they said. Example:
Man: Where is the bathroom?
Ding
Man:Where is the macaroni?
Ding
Man: Where is Meryl Streep?

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re: Improv Games#2

Posted: 4/17/07 at 5:44pm

hey Stick, "Typewriter" sounds like a play I was in once called "Sure Thing". It's basically like that, everytime a bell rings the conversation goes back to where it got off track. It's a riot, you should look into it.

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