by Gary Schwartz | Aug 22, 2021 | Games, Giberish, Improv Games, Spontaneity, The Spolin Players
Fluency with Gibberish and Verbal Agility One player goes out. Audience co-creates a story. The focus is for one player to tell that story in gibberish to the returning player. The player who does not know this story must translate each part of the gibberish story...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Giberish, Improv Games, Orientation, Warm Up Games
Gibberish is used to communicate The mistake a lot of people make, is that gibberish is just a bunch of fun noise to be blathered and have some people make up what they can based on the attitude and gestures. Connecting their clever lines to some aspect of what...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Giberish, Improv Games, The Spolin Players, Verbal Agility
Gibberish English The audience suggests who and where two players might be, while a third player/sidecoach switches them unexpectedly between English and Gibberish throughout the scene. Notes on Sidecoaching When sidecoaching Gibberish English, make sure you...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Giberish, Improv Games, Verbal Agility
Direct translation vs Assumed or invented meaning In many improv troupes, gibberish is used as a ‘gimmick’. The gibberish is not translated accurately, but becomes fodder for clever jokes based on attitude and gesture. Note in this video when an...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Giberish, Improv Games
Gibberish / Past Incident Beginners have varying success with Gibberish. In this orientation game,(as Spolin says) expect the gibberish to be mostly done with pantomimic gestures. Also when presenting the game do not tell them how, just ask them to solve the problem...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Follow the Follower, Giberish, Verbal Agility
Fluency with Gibberish and Verbal Agility The Spolin Players (www.spolinplayers.com) have been doing Gib-Interp as a show game for the past 27 years. Here’s an example of great gibberish and great translation, by David McCharen and Danny Mann. Something to say...
