Energy
These games and exercises will get the enrgy up in a show or practice.
Bunny Bunny
Description
- The group forms a circle and everyone begins patting their legs in rhythm and chanting "zoom-ba zoom-ba".
- One player will start by saying(in rhythm) "bunny bunny" while making two pairs of bunny ears with their hands and pointing them at themself.
- That same player with then repeat the above step but point the bunny ears and someone else in the circle.
- That person who was pointed to will repeat the above two steps pointing to a new person, and we pass it around the circle.
- While any player is doing the bunny ears part, the two players on either side of them should face towards them and wave their arms left and right chanting "ticky tocky ticky tocky"!
- This game can go as long as it needs to or until it feels like we've exhausted the fun or novelty of it.
- Optionally the group can slowly ramp up the speed and end it once it becomes to fast to continue.
Purpose
- Great warm up to just prepare to be silly.
- Helpful listening exercise.
- Good for building up energy.
Tags
Child Friendly -
Energy -
Listening -
Party -
Warm Up -
Half Life
Description
- The host sets up the game. Two improvisers will perform an entire story in just one minute. They can riff a little about how movies today are too long, people don't have long attention spans or whatever.
- The host then gets a suggestion. It could be an existing story or movie title, a made up title, a genre, or any basic suggestion.
- The two improviers then perform that scene, trying to create the entire story in one minute. The host will time them and call scene at one minute.
- Then the host will point out that it's still too long and set them up to do the same scene in half the time.
- This pattern continues doing the same scene in half the time going from 60 to 30 to 15 to 7 to 3 to 1 second(s).
- Each time the scene is replayed it's distilled and/or sped up further until the final one second scene.
Tips
- Try to move around the stage and use object work to help you remember the flow of what happens in the original scene.
- It probably won't be an extremely compelling narrative but try to have a beginning, middle, and end.
- Play up dramatic and film tropes.
Tags
Energy -
Listening -
Narrative -
Object Work -
Performance -
Scene Work -
Torture -