Improv Encyclopedia

In this wiki you will find games and exercises, but also other interesting things about improv. You can participate and bring in your own ideas. Simply register and create your own article.


Improv Games

Show all Improv Games (116) # Talking 9 # Switches 13 # Letter Games 4 # Dialogue Form 7 # Emotion Games 4 # Objects 4 # Chain Games 9 # Physical Contact 1 # Music Games 11 # Guessing Games 3 # Speech 8 # Direction Games 3 # Replay 10 # In Black and White 3 # Slapstick-Bustle-Action 3 # Other 2 # Dubbing 3 # Audience on stage 2 # Status Games 0 Animatronics Jamboree Job Center From the viewpoint of Blindline Role reversal The Conscience Drop A Line Mousetraps F.I.S.H. Potpourri Expedition Whose line Rollback Press Conference Road Trip Walking Backwards Marriage Guidance Trizophrenia Prison visitor Dubbed commercial Monkey in the Middle The hitch-hiker Multiple personalities The Voice Bring your thing Duet Questions Only Radio Mix The central theme Talking animals Alliteration

Here you can find a collection of improv games. This collection consists of games that can be performed in a show in front of an audience. Each of them can be announced in advance, or they can be played unannounced ...


Improv Exercises

Show all Improv Exercises (62) # Action Reaction 2 # Accepting 11 # Breathing 0 # Expression 2 # Character 5 # Storytelling 10 # Focus 1 # Memory 1 # Emotions 0 # Group 7 # Impulse 2 # Multitasking 1 # Music and Singing 1 # Pairs 0 # Pantomime 1 # Rhyming 2 # Space 0 # Speed 7 # Other 5 # Status 2 # Dancing - Choreography 0 # Trust 1 # Perception 3 # Physicalness - Movement 2 # Speech 3 # Presence 1 # Heighten 0 # Finding Game 2 # Listening 4 # Relationship 0 # concentration 1 # Association 9 Dissociation Conducted Story Traffic light Follow the king Action emotion detail Picking gifts Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Cut and paste What Are You Doing! Category Snap Advance and Expand Worlds worst Playback Show House - residents - flood 3 X different Step by step Character exercise (character switch) I am a tree

Here you can find a collection of exercises for improv theatre. These exercises are intended to train specific aspects and skills in a targeted manner. The transition from exercises to games is fluid. What is still an exercise for one, ...


Warm-ups

Show all Warm-ups (70) Barney Four Corners Falling Category Snap Blind Stalker Kennedy Fred Schneider Triangle Zip Zap Zoop Genetically modified mouse King of Siam Simulclap Kitty wants a corner Quick Death The monster Category Die Last word - first word Truth and lie Storytelling with movements Follow the king increase Bippity Bippity Bop Hot Spot Duck, duck, goose Seven Things Sword of samurai Molecules Blinking place change Mr. Hit me Yes, let's Endless snake Living Scenery Slow-motion Rumble Hey and Ho Digits Clap Focus Alien, Tiger, Cow Hide body What is a what? Flock Dance What Are You Doing! Free Association Circle Up House - residents - flood Forming Molecules Nightingale Rebrand things Bunny Bunny Peculiar neighbor Group Stop

Before doing sports, you warm up. Every child knows that. Since theatre is also a form of physical work, one should warm up a bit before starting the actual exercises. On the one hand you can prepare yourself physically and ...


Improv Glossary

Show all Improv Glossary (48) Work Exhibition Gossip Ignoring Break Blocking Focus Trust Musician Gibberish Gag Cancel Ask For stage hog Accept Rhymes Curtain Audience Headline Theatresport what is improv? Attitude Chairs Talkativeness Character Authenticity Conflict What is Playback Theatre? Questions Clapping Beat Long Form Interruption Action and Reaction Play Bill Stringency Requisite Kissing Status Clothes Offer Microphone Taboo Soap CROW Shortform Encore Stage Fail

As in every special field, there are a lot of terms with special meaning in the Improtheater. We have tried to compile and explain some of these terms in our improv glossary.


Lists

Show all Lists (7) Occupations List List of further ticks of figures Hobbies List of activities List of relationships List of places Genre List

Improv Forms

Show all Improv Forms (17) Camp Fire Peekabooker Words that change the world Harold The Milano Online Improv Show Technical Guides Slumdog Impronair Books Parade The Butterfly Effect Lotus The seven year itch Superscene Stage Directions Found Objects apartment building Bring your thing Spokes

More Improv

Show all More Improv (5) Del Close Keith Johnstone Charna Halpern Viola Spolin Books

Organisation

Show all Organisation (5) Musician The Black Box Improv Theater Online Improv Show Technical Guides Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides Stage lighting

Improv Groups

Show all Improv Groups (16) Improbanden Dangerbox Improv Yes, Chef! Cachorrada Impro Clube Imprudentes Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Kolektiv Narobov TAMTi Improv.pl K.A.R.L. Improv Laugh-Masters Academy - "Chicago Style" Long Form Improv & Sketch Comedy School in Australia Barcelona Improv Group (BIG) Rapid Fire Theatre Dirty Scoundrels ITC Impro Training Center Waiheke Comedy Show

Rules & Tips

Show all Rules & Tips (3) Online Improv Show -- Technical Guides Online Improv Show Technical Guides Performance

Ask Fors

Show all Ask Fors (3) Hobbies List of activities List of further ticks of figures

Often at the beginning of a scene or game you want to get one or more instructions from the audience. Also in the training one would like to start with a handicap. After a while, however, the same words always ...


Icebreaker Games

Show all Icebreaker Games (6) syllables Ten Fingers Sex with me... Truth and lie Balloons Group formation