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Tag Archives: Verbal Skills

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: “Radio Dial”

Styles abound in this nod to the tradition of scanning up and down the radio dial looking for something worthy of your time.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 28, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:All Play, Connections, Exercises, Experts, Musicality, Narrative, Radio Dial, Style, Verbal Skills, Warm-upLeave a comment on Game Library: “Radio Dial”

Game Library: “Press Conference Endowments”

Shake up your short-form show with this one-of-a-kind press conference.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 14, 2025February 12, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Endowing, Endowment, Experts, Interview, Press Conference Endowments, Short-Form, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Press Conference Endowments”

Game Library: “Poet’s Corner”

Unleash your inner poet.

Posted byimprovdrFebruary 3, 2025February 2, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It UpTags:Characterization, Language Skills, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Poet’s Corner”

Game Library: “Piano Torture”

The improv musician controls the stage in Piano Torture.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 24, 2025Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and Vocabulary, Style It Up, That Sounds Like a SongTags:Booth Torture, Caller, Justification, Music, Musicality, Piano Torture, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Piano Torture”

Game Library: “Pecking Order”

When you honor this communication Pecking Order, all manner of fun awaits.

Posted byimprovdrJanuary 10, 2025December 29, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Characterization, Family Status, Justification, Pecking Order, Relationship, Silence, Status, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Pecking Order”

Game Library: “Papers”

Some variations of the short-form game where lines of dialogue are randomly read from slips of Paper.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 23, 2024December 22, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Ask-for, Audience, Dialogue, Justification, Lines From the Audience, Lines From Your Pocket, Papers, Short-Form, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Papers”

Game Library: “Orchestrated Party”

Strike up the band: it’s time for an Orchestrated Party.

Posted byimprovdrDecember 9, 2024December 9, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Animal Kingdom, Character, Emotional Door, Essence, Musicality, Orchestrated Party, Party Quirks, Relationship, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Orchestrated Party”

Game Library: “Old Job, New Job”

The cobwebs of an old profession inform the behaviors of a new occupation in this entertaining character-based dynamic.

Posted byimprovdrNovember 11, 2024November 9, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:Behavior, Characterization, Curve of Absurdity, Inappropriate Behavior, Justification, Mapping, Old Job New Job, Physicality, Short-Form, Verbal SkillsLeave a comment on Game Library: “Old Job, New Job”

Game Library: “Ninety-Nine Jokes”

Ninety-Nine punchline-seeking improvisers walk into a bar…

Posted byimprovdrOctober 21, 2024October 20, 2024Posted inImprov Games, Improv Terms and VocabularyTags:All Play, Comedy, Decider, Line Game, Ninety-Nine Jokes, Pick Up Lines, Punchlines, Puns, Tiebreaker, Verbal Skills, Word PlayLeave a comment on Game Library: “Ninety-Nine Jokes”

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