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| − | [[Acting Improv]] is THE best [[Activities|activity]] there is. | + | [[Acting Improv]] is THE best [[Activities|activity]] there is. |
| − | + | The format is supremely basic; the students sit in a circle and suggest games and game scenarios. Then the RA (or a student the RA has designated to lead the activity) selects the game, the situation, and the actors involved. There is no requirement to be in the games; indeed, many CTYers just come to Acting Imprw to be entertained, but all persons present are enchouraged to join in the fun. | |
| − | Acting Improv, or AI, is offered almost every day, often twice, and since the start of the weekly/daily system, has also been offered as a weekly | + | |
| + | ==[[Lancaster]]== | ||
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| + | Acting Improv, or AI, is offered almost every day, often twice, and since the start of the weekly/daily system, has also been offered as a weekly activity. | ||
At LAN.08.1, the games usually ran in the following order:<br> | At LAN.08.1, the games usually ran in the following order:<br> | ||
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===Games=== | ===Games=== | ||
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| + | There can be many games played in a single AI session, and they include, but are not limited to: | ||
* [[Park Bench]] | * [[Park Bench]] | ||
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* Necrophilia (started by Race, who would lick the bodies of those pretending to die) | * Necrophilia (started by Race, who would lick the bodies of those pretending to die) | ||
* "I'm a killer whale" was a park bench tactic often used on Otter Lee by John Harrison in 08. 2. At its crux, the joke escalated in a food chain from Otter/Killer Whale/Inuit/Alaskan Oil Driller... Many other AI games were later used to incorporate this gag. | * "I'm a killer whale" was a park bench tactic often used on Otter Lee by John Harrison in 08. 2. At its crux, the joke escalated in a food chain from Otter/Killer Whale/Inuit/Alaskan Oil Driller... Many other AI games were later used to incorporate this gag. | ||
| − | * Earth-Moon-Quiznos-China somehow was made up by John Harrison in 08.2 which escalated to plenty of new Chinas | + | * Earth-Moon-Quiznos-China somehow was made up by John Harrison in 08.2 which escalated to plenty of new Chinas. |
| − | ==Carlisle== | + | ==[[Carlisle]]== |
| − | Until 03.1, Improv was a common activity at Carlisle. In the second week of | + | Until 03.1, Acting Improv was a common activity at Carlisle. In the second week of Session 1, though, an offensive joke about 9/11 was made. It has not been offered since. |
{{The Essential CTY}} | {{The Essential CTY}} | ||
Revision as of 13:41, 26 May 2009
Acting Improv is THE best activity there is.
The format is supremely basic; the students sit in a circle and suggest games and game scenarios. Then the RA (or a student the RA has designated to lead the activity) selects the game, the situation, and the actors involved. There is no requirement to be in the games; indeed, many CTYers just come to Acting Imprw to be entertained, but all persons present are enchouraged to join in the fun.
Lancaster
Acting Improv, or AI, is offered almost every day, often twice, and since the start of the weekly/daily system, has also been offered as a weekly activity.
At LAN.08.1, the games usually ran in the following order:
1. Park Bench
2. Freeze
3. Party Quirks/Late to Work/Press Conference
4. World's Worst
5. Amazing Sphinx
Also see Project Ektelo, an ongoing project for the introduction of new AI games.
Games
There can be many games played in a single AI session, and they include, but are not limited to:
- Park Bench
- Freeze
- Slideshow
- Late to Work
- Party Quirks
- Press Conference
- Dating Game
- Amazing Sphinx
- Subconscious
- Chain Death Murder
- Foreign Film Dubs/Translator
- Superheroes
- Film Critics
- Questions
- Auctioneer
- New Choice
- Perpetual Machine
- 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
- Sports Announcers
- World's Worst
- Half-life
Common Themes/Jokes
- Frank Wang
- Scientology
- Blood of the Innocent (Nixon)
- He was my friend! (Papa T)
- I don't think that's the right way to go to the bathroom!
- There can only be one! (On the park bench)
- Michael Jackson
- Zeke Weiner
- Killing Jokes (started by Nixon who would walk into the center, and pretend to shoot the offender)
- Giving birth
- Electric Shock which started with Hal in 05.2.
- Crucifixion of Christ
- Dick Cheney's shooting of his hunting partner
- Necrophilia (started by Race, who would lick the bodies of those pretending to die)
- "I'm a killer whale" was a park bench tactic often used on Otter Lee by John Harrison in 08. 2. At its crux, the joke escalated in a food chain from Otter/Killer Whale/Inuit/Alaskan Oil Driller... Many other AI games were later used to incorporate this gag.
- Earth-Moon-Quiznos-China somehow was made up by John Harrison in 08.2 which escalated to plenty of new Chinas.
Carlisle
Until 03.1, Acting Improv was a common activity at Carlisle. In the second week of Session 1, though, an offensive joke about 9/11 was made. It has not been offered since.
Things we like | |
|---|---|
| Activities and Games | The Game · Silent Football · Acting Improv · Agreedball · Art of War · Basketball · Blammo · Four Square · Kill Murray/Save Murray · Malkavian Poking Game · Slackjaw · Pokey · The Really Game · Risk · Ultimate Frisbee · Varsity Catch · Wanna buy a duck? · SNAKES!!! · Quiz Bowl · Mandatory Fun |
| Card Games | 1000 Blank White Cards · Egyptian Ratscrew · FLAAR · Illuminati · Kemps · Mao · Scum, Presidents, Speed Capitalism, or Chinese Poker · Scum: The Masquerade · Set · Scroggle |
| Movies | Monty Python · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · The Princess Bride · Alice in Wonderland · Dark Side of Oz · Starcrash · Xanadu |
| Books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Catch-22 · Ender's Game · Harry Potter |
| Other | 42 · Boobtag · Couching · FNORD · Grass orgy · Phone-flipping · Rina · Three |
