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Thu May 06 2004 at 18:55:00
D: What would you like to know about this game?
G:
Everything
.
D: Great. First thing to know is, this game is one that is primarily played in the context of comedy improv, that is, theatrical
improvisation
.
G: No!
D: Oh yes!
G: So how do you play?
D: You present a
scene
in which the last letter of the last word of one actor's line of
dialogue
becomes the first letter of the first word of the next
actor
's line.
Hence
the name, "last letter, first lette
r
."
G:
R
ight. So if I'm an improviser, and I end a sentence with a hilarious word like "
proctologist
," which ends in a "t," you have to start your next
sentence
with the letter "
t
"?
D:
T
hat's i
t
.
G:
T
his game sounds simple enough. Is it hard to pla
y
?
D:
Y
es, it can be. It requires good
listening
skills (and as such, is an excellent training game) but
focus
ing too much on playing the game correctly can
sap
a scene of any
vitality
. Three minutes of
non-sequitur
s might fulfill the rules of the game but it won't make for a very interesting scen
e
.
G:
E
lephants
ate my
pajama
s
!
D:
S
ee what I mea
n
?
G: "
N
ow is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
!"
D:
Y
ou can stop no
w
.
G:
W
here did this game come fro
m
?
D:
M
aybe from
Spolin
. Possibly from
Johnstone
. Improv
troupe
s from both philosophies of improvisation have been known to include it in their
repertoir
e
.
G:
E
r, what happens if you're a bad
speller
, and don't know the last letter of a word like "repertoir
e
?"
D: ...
G: why aren't you-- oh, I see. You could keep quiet and let the previous
speaker
continue...
D: ...
G: as technically, they're not bound by the rule, until they finally end a sentence with a word you are
familiar
wit
h
.
D:
H
a! You've got i
t
!
G:
T
hanks. One more question: are there any other contexts in which this game might be usefu
l
?
D:
L
earning a new
language
-- this game can be used to review
vocabulary
, although you might want to limit it to just words, instead of full sentences. And as I said before, it's a useful
exercise
for practicing listening skills.
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