Improv Game Workshop Activities

Form Objects (aka🍴)

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In pairs or small groups players silently become non-human objects together

Relationship Sculpture

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One person sculpts 2 people in relationship. Sculpted people shift their relationship to each other.

Widen the Lens

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Machines

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One at a time, people add to create a moving, noise-making machine.

What are you doing?

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One person mimes an activity and the next person asks 'what are you doing' They then answer with a different activity that the asker then mimes.

Gibberish - Silent conversation

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Story of Your Name

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Tug of War

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play tug of war with imaginary rope with partners (or whole team)

It's Tuesday

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Each person responds with dramatic emotion to a neutral line

Perspectives

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players build out a character's experience based on a single feeling

Blind Line

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Players read lines of dialogue that audience members have written on slips of paper and must incorporate them into the scene.

Giving Gifts

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Partners give gifts to each other. Receiver is delighted to receive the gift.