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Tag Archives: Short-Form

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”

Game Library: “High Card”

“High Card” provides a revealing all-play experience that unpacks the nuances of status

Posted byimprovdrNovember 25, 2022May 20, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:All Play, Character, Exercises, Long-Form, Relationship, Short-Form, Status, SubtextLeave a comment on Game Library: “High Card”

“S” is for “Stakes”

Raising the “stakes” in your work typically raises the energy, attack, and momentum as well.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 14, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Acting, Comedy, Commitment, Drama, Long-Form, Objective, Passion, Raise the Stakes, S is for, Short-Form, Stakes, To Make Matters Worse, UrgencyLeave a comment on “S” is for “Stakes”

Game Library: “Crime Endowment”

Specifics provide the life blood of this short-form endowment mainstay.

Posted byimprovdrOctober 28, 2022December 2, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Boris, Crime Endowment, Endowing, Interview, Over Confessor, Short-Form, SpecificityLeave a comment on Game Library: “Crime Endowment”

Game Library: “In A, With A, While A…”

In a… blog entry, with a… heaping helping of suggestions, while a… reader contemplates the scenic possibilities.

Posted byimprovdrSeptember 23, 2022June 10, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Ask-for, In A With A While A, Justification, Location, Short-Form, Showing, WhereLeave a comment on Game Library: “In A, With A, While A…”

Game Library: “Famous Last Words”

Few scenes guarantee a more epic ending than “Famous Last Words.”

Posted byimprovdrSeptember 16, 2022January 29, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Famous Last Words, Heighten, Justification, Short-Form, Stakes, Storytelling, To Make Matters Worse, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Famous Last Words”

“S” is for “Short-Form”

Here’s an effort to identify some of the common elements that make short-form what it is.

Posted byimprovdrSeptember 12, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Competition, Improvisation, Long-Form, S is for, Shape of Show, Short-Form, StructureLeave a comment on “S” is for “Short-Form”

Game Library: “Home Shopping Network”

The physical playfulness and energy of this game can provide a nice short-form “out” if the energy of your show is sagging a little.

Posted byimprovdrAugust 12, 2022May 24, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Caller, Competition, Decider, Endowing, Home Shopping Network, Physicality, Shape of Show, Short-Form, TiebreakerLeave a comment on Game Library: “Home Shopping Network”

“S” is for “Shape of Show”

“Shape of Show” combines both past learnt wisdom with current in-the-moment discoveries.

Posted byimprovdrAugust 8, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Comedysportz, Hosting, Long-Form, Red Thread, S is for, Shape of Show, Short-Form, Structure, TheatresportsLeave a comment on “S” is for “Shape of Show”

Game Library: “Typewriter”

Does anyone use a “Typewriter” any more? Here’s a new game with an old name.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 29, 2022October 24, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Blind Typewriter, Double Typewriter, Gibberish Typewriter, Long-Form, Narrator, Scene Painting, Short-Form, Tag Typewriter, TypewriterLeave a comment on Game Library: “Typewriter”

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