Favorite Theatre Game?

[aces25]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 10:03pm

We all know as actors we play some weird games but what are some of your favorites?

[Thesbijean]

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...

[jasonf]

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.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:06pm

Freeze. My all-time favorite.

[jasonf]

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...

[Fizz]

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."

[anotherhundredpeople]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 11:19pm

wow. i'm definitely a fan of freeze and taxi.

[ashley0139]

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.

[Theatreboy49]

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.

[thez914]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:11pm

BIG BOOTY!!!

...anyone??

[sadiem100]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:30pm

How do you play Freeze?

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 10:31pm

"What are you doing" and Zip Zap Zop

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 2/16/06 at 11:25pm

freeze, party quirks, bippity bippity bop (also called bippity boppity bop)

[leap_of_moo]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 12:03am

"Bippity Bippity Bop" and "Party Quirks"

[Thesbijean]

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.

[MamaCita06]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 12:17am

LOVE BIG BOOTY!

[thevolleyballer]

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!

[lamentingenvelope]

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.

[jasobres]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:20am

HOEDOWN!!!!!!

[dano]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:34am

Why is The Question Game my favorite?

[children&art]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:44am

i like Quarters and after Quarters is over, Spin the Bottle.

[OOTI2004]

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.

[Enjolras77]

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!

Updated On: 2/17/06 at 02:24 PM

[LaVieHilary]

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.

[Overthemoon6]

Posted: 2/17/06 at 3:18pm

I love Party Quirks. I also really love the Three Professors.