Paperclip Game

Description

This is a great improv exercise for teaching players to recognize patterns and heighten what has been established.

Everyone forms a backline. One person steps forward and says what object he is and what his function is, like "I'm a paperclip, and I hold loose papers together." A second person steps up and says what object he is, and what his similar function is, like "I am a rubber band and I hold loose pieces of mail together." At that point a pattern is established and everyone just steps forward one-by-one and heightens the pattern:

• I am twine and I hold loose recyclable newspapers together.
• I am shackles and I hold loose chain gang prisoners together.
• I am religion and I hold loose communities together.

Repeat until it's as heightened as it's going to get, then start over again with a new object and function.

 

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