How to Play the Improv Lies Game

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JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Hi. I'm Jayne Entwistle with expertvillage.com. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: And I'm Andrew Stubblefield. Welcome back. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: We're playing some of our favorite improv games today, and one of the great games is called lies. Now I call it lies, some people call it lines, and the subtle difference is that lines are lines of dialogue and lies are lies that you might tell. Normally, we would get those lies from the audience. So, I have a little box of lies here and we are going to take a little handful and not look at them, and we're going to put them in our pocket. And then what we're going to is Andrew and I are going to do a scene using some of those great rules and structures we've talked about--yes and, accepting, give and take, not blocking, who, where, what--and we're going to pull out those lies and incorporate them into the scene. So this game is called lies. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Go ahead. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: For the sake of this scene, how about we're at the park? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Good, great. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Okay. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Oh, this is the hottest Fourth of July I've ever felt, Sarah. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Oh, Johnny, I think I forgot the hotdogs. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: I just flew in from Texas. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: I know, and you said you specifically wanted your favorite hotdogs. I can't believe I forgot them. I know how much you love them, really I do, and I just think it's me, not you. It's my memory. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: I'm so glad you realized this. I mean, you've always blamed me and now I'm glad that you're taking responsibility on your own. I've never been arrested, never in my life, and now the fact that you're taking on responsibility, maybe all of that past criminal history will not follow you either. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: I don't want it to follow me; I'm tired of my criminal past. I've traveled extensively with the circus and it just gets you in trouble. So that is an example of lies. We used those funny little lies on our pocket. And the thing with lies that's a great example is when you pull out a lie and you read it, even if it doesn't fit your scene, you can't throw it out, you can't deny the lie or block the lie--you have to incorporate it into the scene. This would have been a fun one. I'm not wearing underwear. Hmm, lies.

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