Can we all find the game? Group Games Decoded
Group games, they are fun when they work and a nightmare when they don’t.
Let’s get some reps in on playing with an Us Vs the World mentality to write our games up on the spot. With clear rules and clear paths to joy! They won’t work every time, but by golly, if we won’t learn how to have fun trying. Stop the dread, choose WE instead.
Workshop may feature the following:
- Difference between Group Game and Group Scene.
- Finding/Sealing the pattern with the “1, 2, 3, seal”
- Simplifying the pattern with small steps.
- “All or nothing at all” heightening.
- Completing the pattern with buttons – “flip, flex or fly high”.
- Fighting the impulse to blow it up.
- How to manage the “wildcard”? Every game has the potential for one.
- Unraveling complexity through justification and “flip flopping”.
- “Hey everybody, get in here” Game leadership.
- Us Vs the World sense of play.
Instructor: Jacque Arend
Date: Wednesday, September 16th
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Student Cap: 16
Cost: $35
Jacque Arend is a Phoenix-based improviser, producer, and educator with more than 20 years of experience in longform improvisation and theatrical storytelling. Her formal improv training began at iO Chicago in 2005, and she began teaching shortly thereafter. Focused on longform mainly, Jacque has been steadily coaching and performing improv around the country and also has a background in acting. Today, she serves as Executive Director of SAVI FEST.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Second Beat Improv Theater
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