My students shared a super creative improvisation game with me (yes they are looking up new improv games all the time), I love how inspired they are and we had great results!
Taxi Driver:
One students sits on a chair, with two students seated behind him/her. The student seated in front is considered the "taxi driver", while the other students are the "passengers." Students create their own characters, improvise their own conversations with passengers, taxi driver, even calling out to people on "the street." When a student passenger, runs out of ideas they can claim that "this is their stop," and tag a new student "from off the street." Students are constantly rotating through, even the taxi drive can "change their shift."
I expected the students to hold conversations, cause arguments, "jump out of the cab" etc, but what I did not expect was their reaction to the "driving" of the taxi driver. Students would lean to one side or the other depending on the way the taxi driver was pretending to turn the wheel. There was even a group of students who "stopped short" and fell out of their chairs! Some made comments like "You missed that stop sign," "Look out for the cross walk," "We were hit by a deer!" I loved watching them become engaged beyond the conversation and create/react to situations or environments.
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