Different Ways to Play the 'ABC' improv game

Video Transcript

"Now, some of the groups, like Comedy Sports or some of the theater groups, they’ll raise the challenge on that where they’ll take turns with each letter of the alphabet. They’ll start on one they chose from the audience, like say “L”, and they’ll go all the way through, from “L”, back around through “Z”, and “A”, all the way back to “L”, and then they’ll try to finish going backwards from “L”. Once they’ve done all twenty six, they’ll work backwards from “L” and so that’s an interesting way to do that. Now it’s a good performance game, it’s a good warm-up game, but it’s also a great game that you can play in the car so that you’re playing these games and keeping the skills close to you. You can knock it out anytime for any conversation and it tends to put a little surprise into what you’re doing because that small filter of having to choose the letter. It’s not like that’s the hardest task you’ll ever do in Improvisation, but it might cause you to make a choice that’s interesting and you stick with it. It’s a choice that’s different than what you might have chosen if you weren’t playing a game. So those games might be ABC scenes, or alphabet monologues or alphabet themes, different groups are going to call them different things, but it’s all that same basic skill. "