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This is an improv warm up called "Emotional Fruit Salad". And this is a very high energy
game, and it works on people expressing extreme emotions and really working on that muscle.
We go through our day of kind of having moderate to mild emotional reactions, and in improv
we want to have huge emotional reactions, so this helps work on that muscle. So how
it works is I'll start and I'll say "Okay everybody find a partner in 5, 4, 3, 2, good".
Alright, now that everybody's with a partner, I'm going to say "Be angry with that partner".
And real fast they're just going to turn on their partner and be really angry with their
partner, they're both going to be angry and yelling and going to the extreme. And then
I'm going to say "Find someone to be silly with", and they're going to find a new partner
really quick, and they're just going to start being really silly with that person. And then
if I say, "Find someone to be angry with", they're going to go back to that same partner
they had when they were angry, so they're always angry with the same person. "Go back
to being silly with somebody", they go back to find that same person they were silly with.
"Find someone to be sweet with", and I find a new partner and I'm sweet to that partner..."Oh
you're so nice, I know you're so nice". "Be angry", and then I go back to the angry person.
So you're making different partners around the room and you always have the same emotion
with those different partners. And as a facilitator, I'm just going "Find someone to be angry with",
"Find someone to be silly with", "Find someone to be sweet with", "Find someone to be suspicious
of", "Find someone to be mysterious with", "Find someone to be happy with, excited with",
and so on and so forth. Depending on how big your group is you can layer on lots of emotions,
and you can go back to them real fast so people are running around the room, going from different
emotional extremes. It gets really noisy, this game, so I recommend having a bell or
a horn or a whistle or something to get the group's attention because it can get really
loud, really quickly. But it's super fast, it's super fun, and it really gets to work
that muscle of extreme emotional switches really fast. It also gets people to have small
connected moments with each other as well which is pretty fun. So, that's an improv
warm up, called "Emotional Fruit Salad".