improvised line or mistake Adler - Exaggerated facial expressions Practical Aesthetics – Actor states clear, playable objectives Meisner: use of repetition Actor plays more than one character in a scene Something goes wrong (on purpose or not) Cross- Gender Casting Over the top Shakespearean emotion Hagen - Actor switches rolls instantly Actor uses a prop in an unintended way Actor forgets a line and covers it with humor Spolin- style improv energy Brecht - talks directly to audience Slapstick or Physical Comedy Actor “Steps into” then “out of” character Stanislavski moment of real emotion Breaking the Fourth Wall Audience Interaction Meisner: moment of reaction truthfully to partner Fast- paced wig / prop change Chekhov- like big gesture Adler - Exaggerated villain voice or posture Exaggerated death scene Actor voices multiple characters improvised line or mistake Adler - Exaggerated facial expressions Practical Aesthetics – Actor states clear, playable objectives Meisner: use of repetition Actor plays more than one character in a scene Something goes wrong (on purpose or not) Cross- Gender Casting Over the top Shakespearean emotion Hagen - Actor switches rolls instantly Actor uses a prop in an unintended way Actor forgets a line and covers it with humor Spolin- style improv energy Brecht - talks directly to audience Slapstick or Physical Comedy Actor “Steps into” then “out of” character Stanislavski moment of real emotion Breaking the Fourth Wall Audience Interaction Meisner: moment of reaction truthfully to partner Fast- paced wig / prop change Chekhov- like big gesture Adler - Exaggerated villain voice or posture Exaggerated death scene Actor voices multiple characters
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
improvised line or mistake
Adler - Exaggerated facial expressions
Practical Aesthetics – Actor states clear, playable objectives
Meisner: use of repetition
Actor plays more than one character in a scene
Something goes wrong (on purpose or not)
Cross-Gender Casting
Over the top Shakespearean emotion
Hagen - Actor switches rolls instantly
Actor uses a prop in an unintended way
Actor forgets a line and covers it with humor
Spolin-style improv energy
Brecht - talks directly to audience
Slapstick or Physical Comedy
Actor “Steps into” then “out of” character
Stanislavski moment of real emotion
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Audience Interaction
Meisner: moment of reaction truthfully to partner
Fast-paced wig / prop change
Chekhov-like big gesture
Adler - Exaggerated villain voice or posture
Exaggerated death scene
Actor voices multiple characters