Description

Excellent Status improv game.

4 players. Ask an audience member to pick 4 cards out of a deck, and attach a card to each player`s forehead, so that players can see each other`s card, but not their own. Use a rubber band or a piece of string for that.

The idea is to improvize a scene, in which the status order of the characters is defined by the cards. Evidently, players don`t know their own status, so the other players will have to endow them.

Notes

Set up a location where status is important. Examples would be a Royal Palace or a highly organized bureaucracy (the White House ?).

Variations

• players can only see their own card, but not the others`
• give players multiple cards, and let them switch cards in the middle of the scene. Statuses (statii ??) should change accordingly.
• as an exercise, let players play a scene and then ask them to line up in status order to see if they `got` their status right.