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Category Archives: Improv Terms and Vocabulary

Game Library: “Contact”

Few games demand such an “outside the box” approach to onstage physicality as “Contact” or “Touch to Talk.”

Posted byimprovdrDecember 30, 2022October 15, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Contact, Justification, Physicality, Stage Picture, Staging, Talking Heads, Touch to TalkLeave a comment on Game Library: “Contact”

“T” is for “Talking Heads”

Four possible “adds” to elevate your scene beyond a strictly “talking heads” affair.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 26, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Physicality, Stage Picture, T is for, Talking Heads, WafflingLeave a comment on “T” is for “Talking Heads”

Game Library: “Tag-Team Monologue”

A popular narrative short-form game for your collection.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 23, 2022September 7, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Ensemble, Narrative, Storytelling, Tag-Team Monologue, Take, Trust, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Tag-Team Monologue”

“T” is for “Take”

Some hot takes about the art of focus takes.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 19, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Focus, Give, Give and Take, Sharing Focus, Split Focus, T is for, TakeLeave a comment on “T” is for “Take”

Game Library: “Text/Subtext”

Unlock the fun (and challenge) of shifting quickly between your text and subtext.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 16, 2022September 14, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Cartooning, Emotional Truth, Motivation, Objective, Subtext, Text/Subtext, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Text/Subtext”

“S” is for “Subtext”

I like your shoes.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 12, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Ambiguity, Emotional Truth, S is for, Specific Ambiguity, Specificity, Subtext, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on “S” is for “Subtext”

Game Library: “Pan Left, Pan Right”

“Pan Left” to the latest Game Library entry…

Posted byimprovdrDecember 9, 2022December 19, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Edits, Four Square, Justification, Pan Left Pan Right, Relationship, Short-Form, Strangers, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Pan Left, Pan Right”

“S” is for “Strangers”

Here are five answers to the improvisational riddle “when is a stranger not a stranger…?”

Posted byimprovdrDecember 5, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Character, CROW, Curve Ball, Relationship, S is for, Secrets, Specificity, Strangers1 Comment on “S” is for “Strangers”

Game Library: “Relay Entrances and Exits”

Learn how to sell your exits (and entrances) with this energetic improv drill.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 2, 2022March 15, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Entrances, Exercises, Exits, Give and Take, Justification, Relay Entrances and Exits, Sharing Focus, Stage Picture, Staging, Sticky FeetLeave a comment on Game Library: “Relay Entrances and Exits”

“S” is for “Sticky Feet”

Do you suffer from the improvisational curse of “Sticky Feet?”

Posted byimprovdrNovember 28, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Exits, Give, S is for, Stage Picture, Sticky FeetLeave a comment on “S” is for “Sticky Feet”

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