Austin Improv

Some of my students went and said they had a great time! Thanks Peter.

Thanks y'all! (And thanks to the Flying Theater Machine for joining in with the mock show.)

*resumes researching more games & warm-ups*

Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

Roy Janik wrote:Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

We had about ten people (?) there. Lessee how much I can remember:

We started with some quick stretching.

Then we had a whole bunch of warm-up exercises, though I can't remember the order:

• "Five Things"
• "Red Ball"
• "Brain Scrambler"[1]
• "It's Tuesday", done around a circle.
• "Electric Company" (rather too much of this, in retrospect)
• The "Character Circle" exercise[2]

Then we did 3-line scene starts.

• We added "bell for every question" -- if there was a question, we rang the 'new choice' bell.
• Then we added a "name each other in the first two lines" requirement.
• Then we added an "emotional noise before each line" requirement.

Then I put us on break about ten minutes too early (D'oh!), which led to us taking a 20 minute break before the FTM got done with the theater.

Lessee... for the fake show, we had --

• Category, Die
• Good/Bad/Worst Advice
• Scene in Reverse (the variation where the director arbitrarily moves the scene forward or backwards)
• Pan Left/Pan Right [Mike hopped in at this point to direct]
• Genre Replay
• The Alphabet Game (with 'New Choice' added in)
• Death-in-a-Minute
• Montage (scenes with wipes, about seven minutes) [Spaz ran this bit]
• Line Games: "One-Night Stand" and "The Blue Micetro Finisher" [back to Mike]
• Words of Wisdom

[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

[2] No idea what this is called. One person gets into the circle; everyone else tells the center person something about his/her character. After a while, the outer folks start asking the character questions, until the central person gets tired of it and trades out with somebody else.

hujhax wrote: [*] "Brain Scrambler"[1]
[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

Brain Scrub. It's also what Wes calls it.

hujhax wrote:

Roy Janik wrote:Thanks for stepping up, Peter! I'm sorry I missed it.

What'd you guys do? Games? Scenes? How many people were there?

We had about ten people (?) there. Lessee how much I can remember:

We started with some quick stretching.

Then we had a whole bunch of warm-up exercises, though I can't remember the order:

• "Five Things"
• "Red Ball"
• "Brain Scrambler"[1]
• "It's Tuesday", done around a circle.
• "Electric Company" (rather too much of this, in retrospect)
• The "Character Circle" exercise[2]

Then we did 3-line scene starts.

• We added "bell for every question" -- if there was a question, we rang the 'new choice' bell.
• Then we added a "name each other in the first two lines" requirement.
• Then we added an "emotional noise before each line" requirement.

Then I put us on break about ten minutes too early (D'oh!), which led to us taking a 20 minute break before the FTM got done with the theater.

Lessee... for the fake show, we had --

• Category, Die
• Good/Bad/Worst Advice
• Scene in Reverse (the variation where the director arbitrarily moves the scene forward or backwards)
• Pan Left/Pan Right [Mike hopped in at this point to direct]
• Genre Replay
• The Alphabet Game (with 'New Choice' added in)
• Death-in-a-Minute
• Montage (scenes with wipes, about seven minutes) [Spaz ran this bit]
• Line Games: "One-Night Stand" and "The Blue Micetro Finisher" [back to Mike]
• Words of Wisdom

[1] ... or that's what Spaz calls it; the one where you circle up and name objects in a category in some arbitrary order, and then get several such chains going simultaneously. We stopped at two chains.

[2] No idea what this is called. One person gets into the circle; everyone else tells the center person something about his/her character. After a while, the outer folks start asking the character questions, until the central person gets tired of it and trades out with somebody else.

Nice work, hoss. Seems like a solid jam to me. I'll try to head out to one sometime this month.

can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

yeah, cause I thought it was called Brain Bonanza

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:can we add deciding what to officially call brain scrub onto the next AIC body meeting agenda?

Only if the vote is opened to the entire community via e-mail...

I call it brain fuck when working with adults and brain scrub when working with kids.

I know everyone is yes, anding...but it feels like my joke has been murdered by sincerity.

*bump*

Anybody up for running tomorrow's jam?

kaci_beeler wrote: yeah, cause I thought it was called Brain Bonanza

I thought it was called Brain Robin the Boy Wonder.

*one last bump*

Bueller?

hujhax wrote:*one last bump*

Bueller?

Looks like it's all you, Peter.

Let's get some folks signed up to lead so the jam can be healthy, wealthy and wise, going forward.

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