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Category Archives: Improv Games

Game Library: “Word at a Time Story”

This ImprovDr blog entry includes two approaches to this classic storytelling improv exercise.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 28, 2022December 6, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Accepting, Looking Backwards, Obvious, Reincorporation, Storytelling, Warm-up, Word at a Time, Word at a Time StoryLeave a comment on Game Library: “Word at a Time Story”

Game Library: “La Ronde”

“La Ronde” provides a user-friendly frame for exploring complex characters and relationships.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 21, 2022July 14, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Character, Edits, La Ronde, Long-Form, Relationship, Strangers, Structure, Top ReadsLeave a comment on Game Library: “La Ronde”

Game Library: “Stand, Sit, Kneel, Lie”

Improv can become a stand and talk affair if we’re not careful. Stand, Sit, Kneel, Lie provides the perfect antidote if you need to shake up your staging habits.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 14, 2022July 30, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Justification, Levels, Physicality, Short-Form, Staging, Stand Sit Kneel LieLeave a comment on Game Library: “Stand, Sit, Kneel, Lie”

Game Library: “Nicer Than You”

Bring a little more kindness to your relationships and scene work with “Nicer Than You.”

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 7, 2022October 17, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Consent, Emotional Truth, Kindness, Love, Nicer Than You, One-Downing, One-Upping, RelationshipLeave a comment on Game Library: “Nicer Than You”

Game Library: “Freeze Frame”

Open eyes… and peek into the inner workings of “Freeze Frame.”

Posted byimprovdrDecember 31, 2021March 1, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Freeze Frame, Justification, Narrative, Narrator, Shivving, Slide Show, Volunteers, Wearing Your Character LightlyLeave a comment on Game Library: “Freeze Frame”

Game Library: “Bell’s Kitchen”

This ImprovDr Game Library addition provides a way to workshop first steps and how to find new ways to approach launching ask-fors that might have become a little stale or predictable.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 24, 2021July 30, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Ask-for, Bell's Kitchen, Caller, CROW, Given Circumstances, Initiation, Starting ScenesLeave a comment on Game Library: “Bell’s Kitchen”

Game Library: “Identity Circle”

“Identity Circle” provides a platform to truly see and listen to the truths of your ensemble.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 17, 2021May 31, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Connections, Ensemble, Icebreakers, Identity Circle, Inclusiveness, Speaking Your Truth, Trust, Truth, VulnerabilityLeave a comment on Game Library: “Identity Circle”

Game Library: “New Choice”

“New Choice” keeps you on your toes as a player while also modeling the immediacy and disposability of improvisational play.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 10, 2021October 5, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Ding, Improvisation, New Choice, Short-Form, Should've Said, Spontaneity, WimpingLeave a comment on Game Library: “New Choice”

Game Library: “Good, Bad, Worst Advice”

This entry includes some good, bad and worst advice for how to get the most out of a short-form game of the same name.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 3, 2021September 23, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Comedy, Curve of Absurdity, Experts, Good Bad Worst Advice, Hosting, Interview, Short-FormLeave a comment on Game Library: “Good, Bad, Worst Advice”

Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

Here’s an exercise to help pace heightening moves when exploring the game of a scene.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 26, 2021April 30, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Exercises, Extending, Heighten, Heightening Circle, Looking Backwards, Looking Good, One-Downing, One-Upping, Small Steps, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Heightening Circle”

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