Play the Improv Game Rear View Mirror: Part 3

Video Transcript

"In ‘Rear View Mirror’ you’re going to allow your players to develop that scene as best they can for about a two-minute arc and then, or at least a minute and a half arc, in a Comedy Sports environment of short games, at least about a minute and a half. In the professional theater show that I’ve been touring with, my favorite people will let that run two and a half, three-minutes, and then, can you say reverse and have them go all the way back to the beginning and have the closing moment, would be the opening moment. It’s a particularly good skill because players can play with getting the arc and the development, pardon me, the arc and the development of the story nicely done all the way in one direction and then can they and have it that same sort of tone as they go backwards and has a real nice ending, everyone’s leaving the state at the end. And it’s ending at the moment it started with. The audience tends to be very impressed that they have the level of concentration and that they built things in such a way that they could reconstruct it that way and keep each other in, if there’s little mistakes, how did they solve them and continue getting back to the beginning which was the end. So it’s a very challenging game, you can try it with a smaller piece first. You’ll probably develop this skill by playing the game of Forward, Reverse so look for that clip and you can also find a clip where we show an example of that from a professional group in a comedy club. But this game is ‘Rear View Mirror’ and you’ll have fun playing it. So go give it a try as soon as you can. In the meantime this is Les McGehee from Plays Well With Others, I’ll see you in another clip in Expert Village. "