Play the Improv Game Rear View Mirror: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Now the idea you might choose from your audience to build the scene would be something like the name of a story that’s never been told before, or the name of a movie that’s never been made, or reenact a historical event or something like this and you’re going to make some active choices while you find yourself a solid piece of scene work just in and of itself. Now the catch is that while you’re doing this scene work the host is going to do something kind of deconstructive, he’s going to give you the challenge of reversing at some point. Now in the game Forward, Reverse you forward, reverse anywhere that the host finds creative opportunity, for instance I’ve seen hosts have a scene start and thirty seconds after the scene started they yelled reverse and they reverse it for sixty seconds. So in other words they reverse it for thirty seconds before the scene actually started putting the burden on the players of coming up with what happened thirty seconds before their scene started. "