Torture
These games involve torturing players by making them justify extreme points of view, perform strenuous actions, and/or pushing their mental faculties to the limit.
Change
Description
- Two improvisers start a scene and a third acts as a host.
- The host will ring a bell or say a phrase like change! or new decision! periodically after a line of dialogue has been said.
- The improviser who said that last line of dialogue will have to say a new line of dialogue to replace it.
Example
- Improviser 1: What do you want?
- Improviser 2: I want a muffin.
- Host: Change!
- Improviser 2: I want a whole cake to myself.
- Host: Change!
- Improviser 2: I want you to love me again!
Tips
- Try to heighten each time you are made to change a line of dialogue and go for a drastic change on the third changed line.
- As the host, utilize the rule of three most of the time, only occasionally making the improvisers change only one line of dialogue or making them change many lines in a long run of changes.
Tags
Child Friendly -
Performance -
Scene Work -
Torture -
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 -