Playing the "Yes, And?" Improv Game

Video Transcript

"Hello we are learning how to do some improvisational warm ups. Now, we are going to show you how to play yes and. If you are familiar with improvisational theater you are probably familiar with yes and. Yes and is a general philosophy to agree with what your partner is saying and then to add additional information. In order to play yes and as a warm up exercise have your team partner up in to pairs of two. At that point in time the pairs are going to turn facing each other. They are going to speak some information in to existence at which point the next player is going to yes and it. Which means to agree with and add more detail to the situation. Watch Daniel and I go through this a couple of times and I think you will understand. "I went to the bank today" "yes and it was awesome they had completely renovated the entire building" "yes and the renovations were so nice that they caught my eye when I was driving down the road." "yes and I thought they were so beautiful I thought I would take a picture with my new camera phone." "yes and once I had forty pictures I published an album called pictures of my favorite bank what looks cool" "yes and I posted it online on a web site and it got up to forty thousand hits a day." That?s how you play yes and. You just continue to agree with what your partner has said and then add new information. Yes and it is great. Yes and we hope you learned how to play"