Big Booty Description The teacher is Big Booty. From Big Booty’s left, people in the circle are numbered from 1 upwards. Everyone chants: “Ah, yeah! Big Booty ah yeah, Big Booty, Big Booty, Big Booty” It’s a call-and-response game where – when you hear your number – you repeat it back, then call someone else’s.[…]
Bibbidy Bibbidy Bop Description One person stands in the centre of the circle. They challenge someone on the outside by saying “Bibbidy bibbidy bop”. By the time they finish this phrase, the person they are talking to should have said “Bop” or that person will now be in the middle and resume as the challenger.[…]
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Description The audience writes down phrases, song lyrics or lines of dialogue on paper. 2-4 actors enact a scene where they use the written lines as some of their dialogue.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Description The audience writes down phrases, song lyrics or lines of dialogue on paper. 2-4 actors enact a scene where they use the written lines as some of their dialogue.
Bad Rap Description In a circle, the group sets a rhythm. One person raps a rhyming couplet, leaving off the last word. It should be a pretty obvious set-up for the word, eg: “Going out tonight and I want to flirt What shall I wear? I guess this…” Instead of staying the obvious rhyming word,[…]
Word Restriction Description Three players are individually given a specific number of words that make up their lines of dialogue. Example Improviser A ( 5 words) : Thank you for these flowers! Improviser B ( 3 words) : For your garden. Improviser C (1 word) : Birthday! Improviser A: Yes its 50th Birthday today Improviser[…]
Zip Zap Boing Description Everyone stands in a circle. With a lot of energy the first person passes a “zip” around the circle. “Zap” goes across the circle. “Boing” returns the zip to the person who just zipped, and they zip again in the other direction or zap. Teaching Purpose A good warm-up for building[…]
Word at a Time Story Description Two improvisers stood opposite each other make up a story together by saying a word at a time each. One player says the first word, the next says the second word etc. At first you can start with “Once, Upon, A, Time…” or “One, Day..” and then move on[…]
International / English as a Second Language London is a very international place and we are lucky enough to have a huge variety of nationalities and backgrounds on all of our courses. We especially have a large number of people from Italy, Spain, France, India, USA, Canada on our courses, along with a number of other[…]
Homeless people or people living in a vulnerable situation Each year we run free improv courses at St. Mungo’s Broadway Recovery College, a charity for homeless, vulnerable, unemployed or lower income people. These courses are free and open to all. The St Mungo’s Recovery College is a pioneering, inclusive learning programme, based on the principle[…]
People with a Physical Disability Having a physical disability or using a wheelchair doesn’t have to stop you doing improv. All of our improv exercises in courses can be adapted to suit people with different physical abilities. We are improvisers after all so we thrive on being adaptable. We have successfully worked with a number[…]
18-21 We want to bring improv to more 18-21 year olds to Hoopla to help us improve the overall diversity of Hoopla and the UK improv scene in general. Improv was originally designed for working with this age group or younger, by Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, and it’s a tradition we are keen to[…]