Improv games for fun and learning
Just off the phone with a friend of mine, Jackie Minns. Jackis is a fabulous actor and yoga teacher and masseuse (I do live on a British columbia island you know!) and she and I have been scheming up some ideas to start an improvisational theatre group here on Bowen Island. Our first gathering will be on February 7 and so in doing some research I came across some great collections of improv games and exercises.
- Learnimprov.com has a great list and a random workshop generator.
- The Living Playbook is encyclopedic in nature and is the basis of the free iPhone app, iProv which also has a random generation feature..
- And speaking of improv encyclopedias, here is The Improv Encyclopedia.
- Fuzzy’s game list.
That should give us lots to do.
Hi Chris – good luck with getting the group going, and thanks for sharing the resources you found.
Here’s another one I’ve looked at in the past:
http://www.imprology.com/games/viewallgames.html
Cheers,
Stuart
Ooh, thanks for these links, Chris! I love improv and organized a course here in Vancouver led by a friend of mine, Andy Toth, who is a wonderful actor, teacher and improviser. We’re breaking for the winter but I’m hoping we’ll start up again in the spring. I think improv has so much relevance for our work – and life in general. In fact, I’ve taken the improv mantra of “Yes, and…” for my personal motto!
You can find a great source of Improv games here:
http://www.improvplaybook.
The book is a collection of over 370 games, articles, tips and interviews.
I’ve also posted a new game every Monday for the past year….and they’re all on the site. Plus in the ‘Resource’ section, you’ll find exercises and advice.
And if you discover or invent a new game …send it to me and I’ll post it so improvisers around the world can give it a try.
William
Thanks,
William Hall