Improv Notes - Some Assembly Required

Themes

• Instinct!
• Trust

Control

• Give up control
• Trust your fellow performers
• Don't pre-plan, don't script yourself
• 14-second rule

Yes/and

• Be positive
• New information

Accepting

• Don't wimp
• Enthusiasm!

Offers

• Go with your instinct
• There is no such thing as an insignificant offer
• Make connections

Characters

• Pick one characteristic
• Use it as a filter

Characterization, physicalization

• Bring an extra piece of information
• Commit to it!
• Physical task, unrelated to conversation

Warmups

Sitting

• Association
• Dissociation
• Gibberish Dictionary
• One word sentence
• One minute expert
• Head to Head

Moving

• Three Noses
• Association Jump
• Open Your Hand
• Fusillade
• Become

Games

• Two headed expert
• Actor Switch
• Alphabet Game
• Subtitles
• Emotions
• One Will Die!
• Return desk
• Police station
• News report
• Party Quirks
• Sentences
• Say Again
• Sentences
• Freeze - Emotion
• Film/Theatre Styles
• World's Worst
• Word Association
• Dating Game
• Hidden Agenda
• Entrance/Exit Words
• One Line Scene
• Alphabet
• Questions only
• Freeze tag