Improv Comedy Games - Vol 2 - Forward reverse' improv comedy game - Part 1

Hello, it's Les McGehee again, author of Plays Well with Others. You'll never guess it, but I'm here to teach you another game. This game is a seeing game, and if you search for a clip of an example of it you'll find that as well here on Expert Village dot com. This game is called Forward Reverse and it's a scening game where some improvisers are going to act out a scene. And it's quite possible that to build this scene, you are using the idea of telling it like acting out a movie story or creating it from scratch. It's just a scene, OK. And it has the same goals any scene does, you want information early in the scene, you want an environment, you want relationships in the scene, you want it to tell an interesting story. As with all scenes, there's some reason why you chose that scene out of the big longer story. And so we want to see why that scene's important. Now having said that, we're going to mess with that scene, because we're going to do improv comedy with that scene as well as work the content of the scene. The improv comedy of the scene is you're going to have a host. Groups like comedy sports excel at this game with their referee and their very physical approach and they'll play it very often this forward reverse game. The comedy sports guys developed a lot of other devises to go into the game.