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Tag Archives: Verbal Skills

Game Library: “Tennis”

More tennis puns included in this racket of a warm-up…

Posted byimprovdrSeptember 15, 2025September 11, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Active Listening, Commitment, Losing, Physicality, Playfulness, Spontaneity, Tennis, Verbal Skills, WinningLeave a comment on Game Library: “Tennis”

Game Library: “Story, Story Die”

Add some life and death stakes to your story telling…

Posted byimprovdrAugust 29, 2025August 26, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Caller, Conducted Story, Decider, Long-Form, Narrative, Short-Form, Story Story Die, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Story, Story Die”

Game Library: “Speak, Grunt, Shut Up”

Challenge yourself and your scene partners with this unique (and uniquely inspiring) verbal handle.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 25, 2025July 16, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Justification, Motivation, Physicality, Speak Grunt Shut Up, Stage Picture, Staging, Subtext, Verbal Skills, Where, ZonesLeave a comment on Game Library: “Speak, Grunt, Shut Up”

Game Library: “Sound Ball”

Embrace the moment and the give and take of improv with this high-energy warm-up.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 11, 2025July 7, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Commitment, Energy, Ensemble, Exercises, Presence, Sound Ball, Spontaneity, Verbal Skills, Warm-up, Word BallLeave a comment on Game Library: “Sound Ball”

Game Library: “Song Scene”

“Song Scene” gives the onstage players a little more autonomy in terms of when improvised songs appear in the action.

Posted byimprovdrJuly 7, 2025July 6, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Justification, Long-Form, Music, Musicality, Short-Form, Song, Song Cue, Song Scene, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Song Scene”

Game Library: “Show Stopping Musical”

And here’s a suitably silly musical improv romp.

Posted byimprovdrJune 16, 2025June 14, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Commitment, Dance, Music, Musicality, Physicality, Rhyme, Show Stopping Musical, Song, Style, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Show Stopping Musical”

Game Library: “Shake GPT”

Modern meets classic in this letter writing variation.

Posted byimprovdrJune 6, 2025June 5, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Experts, Justification, Language Skills, Point of View, Shake GPT, Shakespeare, Short-Form, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Shake GPT”

Game Library: “Shadows”

Split up the duties of dialogue and action in this short-form game.

Posted byimprovdrJune 2, 2025June 1, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Audience, Characterization, Dialogue, Justification, Relationship, Shadows, Silence, Subtext, Verbal Skills, VolunteersLeave a comment on Game Library: “Shadows”

Game Library: “Rhyming Couplets”

Stretch those rhyming muscles.

Posted byimprovdrApril 4, 2025April 3, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Active Listening, Language Skills, Musicality, Rhyme, Rhyming Couplets, Rhythm, Target Rhyme, Verbal Skills, VerseLeave a comment on Game Library: “Rhyming Couplets”

Game Library: “Replay Scene”

A surprising variation of the short-form replay conceit…

Posted byimprovdrMarch 24, 2025March 23, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Justification, Physicality, Point of View, Replay, Replay Scene, Short-Form, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Replay Scene”

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