#1
Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:03pm
We all know as actors we play some weird games but what are some of your favorites?
#2
Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:04pm
Party Quirks...
Where there are guests at a party with a unique quirk and the host has to guess, easily entertains me every time...
Where there are guests at a party with a unique quirk and the host has to guess, easily entertains me every time...
#3
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:04pm
Poker. No game in the world better for both its analytical aspect and its psychological aspect. You have to be doing like 5 things at once, and all well, to be able to win. Love it.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#4
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:06pm
Freeze. My all-time favorite.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#5
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:07pm
oh - you meant THEATER Games...oops.
We did this one once in class where you were a blind spider hunting for prey. Everyone was a fly trapped in your web - they could only move in slow motion, and as the spider you were blind, and had to try to catch the flies. Or something like that...
We did this one once in class where you were a blind spider hunting for prey. Everyone was a fly trapped in your web - they could only move in slow motion, and as the spider you were blind, and had to try to catch the flies. Or something like that...
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#6
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:08pm
I'm a fan of Party Quirks, especially cause I've seen some really funny moments in them. "Excuse me sir, that's my Christmas tree. *grabs tree and accidentally breaks it*"
My least favorites are Zip Zap Zop and "This Is A What."
My least favorites are Zip Zap Zop and "This Is A What."
#7
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:19pm
wow. i'm definitely a fan of freeze and taxi.
-jess-
"I think every actor on the stage should have a shirt that says,'believe it or not-I'm doing my best.'" -Alan Rickman
#8
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:22pm
Aw. I love Zip Zap Zop. Takes tons of concentration. I'm actually NOT a fan of party quirks.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#9
Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:34pm
I love freeze. In my most recent class we played it on SR teacher day. our teacher was a student and a SR taught. Our teacher got on stage and a student yelled TORO! and the teacher started running like a bull. It was priceless.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#10
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:11pm
BIG BOOTY!!!
...anyone??
...anyone??
"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window."
-Edward Bond
#11
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:30pm
How do you play Freeze?
"Electricity sparks inside of me... and I'm free, I'm free."
#12
Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:31pm
"What are you doing" and Zip Zap Zop
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#13
Posted: 2/16/06 at 11:25pm
freeze, party quirks, bippity bippity bop (also called bippity boppity bop)
There's a lot I am not certain of...
#15
Posted: 2/17/06 at 12:16am
The Question Game as well
You need to have a conversation ONLY asking questions, very simple, but VERY difficult.
You need to have a conversation ONLY asking questions, very simple, but VERY difficult.
#17
Posted: 2/17/06 at 12:21am
Love "Freeze." Also love "The Card Game", where 13 people grab a card randomly (Ace (low) to King), and hold it up facing outward on their forehead, so the person holding the card doesn't know what number they are, but everyone else does. So they all walk around and when you approach a person with a high number, you act very cheerful and happy. If they have a low number, you talk to them in a sullen, sad tone. It's a good practice of moods and emotions, and it's fun!
#18
Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:18am
Oh man, I hate Zip Zap Zop. Anyone else ever played Human Machine, where each person has to make some silly noise and do some random motion to a beat to make a human machine? I love that one.
And, I don't know what's it's called, but we play it in my theatre class alot where two people are given a scenario and do improv, then the teacher freezes them and replaces them with two other people who have to start a completely different scene being completely different people from the positions that the last two were frozen in - and they don't have time to discuss it, it's all on the fly. I love that one.
And, I don't know what's it's called, but we play it in my theatre class alot where two people are given a scenario and do improv, then the teacher freezes them and replaces them with two other people who have to start a completely different scene being completely different people from the positions that the last two were frozen in - and they don't have time to discuss it, it's all on the fly. I love that one.
#19
Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:20am
HOEDOWN!!!!!!
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
#20
Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:34am
Why is The Question Game my favorite?
"Singing is the lowest form of communication" - Homer
#21
Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:44am
i like Quarters and after Quarters is over, Spin the Bottle.
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#22
Posted: 2/17/06 at 2:12pm
I love Emotional Carpool, at least I think thats what its called, where four people are given a characetrsitic. One person gets in a car (4 chairs set up like a car) and has to act the characteristic, then that person picks up another rider who acts out different characteristic, which the first person then has to pick up, this keeps going until there are four people in the car. Then each person gets let out one by one in the order they got in, then everyone acts out the characteristic of the third person, until number 3 gets out, and then 2's characteristic gets acted out, and then the driver is left in the car acting out the charactersitic he was given until the director calls cut.
#23
Posted: 2/17/06 at 2:24pm
When I taught high school theatre we played a lot of improv games (I would jump in myself a lot). Some of my students favorites were:
1) Freeze Game
2) Character Add-In/Out Game: I would give three actors a scenario and they would start acting. We would try to get as many different characters from the class to add-in to the scene as possible without the scene losing focus. The extras could come and go at will, the only constant being the three originals.
3) Park Bench Game
4) Party Quirks
5) Dating Game: the three bachelors/ettes all have quirks/identities that the contestant has to figure out by asking dating game-esque questions. I also had a student play Chuck Woolery and had some of the other students jump in and improv some ads during a "commercial break".
6) Wacky Dialogue (for lack of a better name): I would select three students, 2 of which had scripts from totally different plays. They would then act out a scene based on a scenario, I gave them. The catch was that the 2 students could only speak in lines from the scripts they had in hand. The other student was free to say whatever.
Those were the days! We had a lot of fun!
1) Freeze Game
2) Character Add-In/Out Game: I would give three actors a scenario and they would start acting. We would try to get as many different characters from the class to add-in to the scene as possible without the scene losing focus. The extras could come and go at will, the only constant being the three originals.
3) Park Bench Game
4) Party Quirks
5) Dating Game: the three bachelors/ettes all have quirks/identities that the contestant has to figure out by asking dating game-esque questions. I also had a student play Chuck Woolery and had some of the other students jump in and improv some ads during a "commercial break".
6) Wacky Dialogue (for lack of a better name): I would select three students, 2 of which had scripts from totally different plays. They would then act out a scene based on a scenario, I gave them. The catch was that the 2 students could only speak in lines from the scripts they had in hand. The other student was free to say whatever.
Those were the days! We had a lot of fun!
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Updated On: 2/17/06 at 02:24 PM
#24
Posted: 2/17/06 at 2:24pm
I love Party Quirks and the "DIE" Game.
The "DIE" game makes you think on your feet and telling weird and crazy stories is always fun.
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Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
"Girl you got money runnin' in yo bloodline."-Carl the Bartender
The "DIE" game makes you think on your feet and telling weird and crazy stories is always fun.
Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
"Girl you got money runnin' in yo bloodline."-Carl the Bartender
#25
Posted: 2/17/06 at 3:18pm
I love Party Quirks. I also really love the Three Professors.
And then, do you know Monseiur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you.
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