How to Improv a Word-At-A-Time Story

The Word-at a-Time Story improv game is a great warm up exercise, class exercise or theatre sport game for any ground of improvisers. The trick, as with all improv, is listening.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• A group of improvisers

1. Stand your group in a line, semi-circle or full circle.
2. Have one person start the one word story with an active verb, such as "Running."
3. Going in order, have each improviser contribute a word until a whole sentence has formed. The words should not be thought hard about, but rather the first thing that comes into one's head.
4. At the end of the sentence, the next improviser can say "period" or "question mark" etc, as her turn.
5. Continue to tell the story as long as you wish. Five minutes will probably be plenty of time.

Tips & Warnings

• The trick is not to try and be funny, but rather to make the story make sense.
• Listen.
• Don't think, just react.

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