A popular line game, “World’s Worst” allows you to flex your comedic muscles.
Category Archives: Improv Terms and Vocabulary
“G” is for “Gagging”
To gag or not to gag…?
Game Library: “Game Lab”
“Game Lab” offers a way to keep your short-form muscles suitably challenged and your scene work fresh.
“F” is for “Freshness”
I’m wrapping up the “Fs” with “Freshness” and some thoughts on how to keep old improv games and frames alive and enticing.
Game Library: “Two Scenes”
Entry number 150 at http://www.improvdr.com examines the performance potentials of “Two Rooms” – a game that demands generous and clear focus exchanges.
“F” is for “Focus”
It’s time to put the spotlight on “Focus” and some simple ways to enable elegant “games of catch” in the words of the incomparable Gilda Radner.
Game Library: “Ballet”
Get your dance shoes on…
“F” is for “Fear”
A consideration of when to run towards fear on the improv stage and when to apply the breaks…
Game Library: “Advance/Extend Stories”
This narrative exercise deploys the foundational storytelling techniques of advancing and extending.
“E” is for “Extending”
The last improv “E” is for “Extending,” the critical practice of imbuing our stories with specificity and, subsequently, interest.