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Tag Archives: Story

Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

What Happens Next in the ImprovDr Game Library…?

Posted byimprovdrNovember 17, 2025December 6, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Action, Connections, Exercises, Narrative, Obvious, Options, Over-Originality, Small Steps, Specificity, Story, What Happens NextLeave a comment on Game Library: “What Happens Next?”

Game Library: “Scene Collage”

Three improv scenes for the price of one!

Posted byimprovdrApril 25, 2025April 23, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Bravery, Characterization, Connections, CROW, Justification, Physicality, Scene Collage, StoryLeave a comment on Game Library: “Scene Collage”

Game Library: “Radio Play”

Tune in for your latest Game Library installment – a little narrative flashback to the golden age of radio…

Posted byimprovdrMarch 3, 2025March 2, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Character, Foley, Narrative, Narrator, Radio Play, Story, Storytelling, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Radio Play”

Game Library: “Opera Minutiae”

Making a big deal out of a little event…

Posted byimprovdrNovember 29, 2024November 28, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Extending, Heighten, Music, Musicality, Opera, Opera Minutiae, Physicality, Short-Form, Small Steps, StoryLeave a comment on Game Library: “Opera Minutiae”

Game Library: “Know-It-All”

Know-It-All tests the theory that two (or more) heads are better than one.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 12, 2024July 11, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Experts, Interview, Interviewer, Know It All, Short-Form, Story, Word at a TimeLeave a comment on Game Library: “Know-It-All”

Game Library: “First Line, Last Line”

The audience provides the bookends, and you do the rest in First Line, Last Line.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 5, 2024February 3, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Button, Dialogue, First Line Last Line, Justification, Short-Form, Story, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “First Line, Last Line”

Game Library: “Circular Scene”

A way to shake up the trajectory of your scenes.

Posted byimprovdrSeptember 29, 2023September 29, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Circular Scene, Long-Form, Short-Form, Story, StructureLeave a comment on Game Library: “Circular Scene”

Game Library: “Creation Myth Scene”

A mythic departure from more run-of-the-mill short-form adventures…

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 10, 2023October 28, 2023Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Commercial, Creation Myth Scene, Justification, Narrative, Short-Form, Small Steps, Story, TrustLeave a comment on Game Library: “Creation Myth Scene”

Game Library: “Escalating Scene”

Escalating Scene offers an improv embodiment of the butterfly effect where one small inconsequential action ultimately causes havoc.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 18, 2022September 23, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Accepting, Curve of Absurdity, Escalating Scene, Justification, Stakes, Story, To Make Matters Worse, UrgencyLeave a comment on Game Library: “Escalating Scene”

“L” is for “Looking Backwards”

“Looking Backwards” (but not with anger) provides a fruitful way to find the path forward.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 24, 2022October 22, 2023Posted inImprov Terms and Vocabulary, Performance StrategiesTags:Callback, Content, L is for, Looking Backwards, Material, Offer, Shelving, Specificity, Story, StructureLeave a comment on “L” is for “Looking Backwards”

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