Playing the "Create Obstacles" Improv Game

Video Transcript

"Hey, we're here learning more improv warm-ups today, and now I'm going to show you how to play Create Obstacles. To play Create Obstacles, you're going to have two players play at a time, and one player is going to fictitiously chase the other player around the stage. Now I suggest, in order for your players not to get hurt, you guys choose to either run in place or to keep your movement area restricted. Now the purpose of this game is to familiarize your team with scene work, and scene work is pantomiming your environment, and creating a reality out of things that are not real. Now this is going to happen as one player is going to choose to chase the other player around, and the person, the player that's being chased is going to create obstacles that the chaser has to overcome. It's a pretty straight-forward game, and I think you'll figure it out once we play it. So for this demonstration I'm going to be chasing Daniel and Daniel is going to be creating obstacles for me. So, here we go, this is how, this is how you play. "Wow! Whoa! Whoa! Wow! Whoa!" And I got him. So that's how you play Create Obstacles."