EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER, created by Jeannette Jaquish

This game is surprisingly successful and funny; as seemingly incongruent emotions work out hilariously.

• For all ages, groups of over three.
• Line them up. First two are Actors, next two are their Ids (Freudian psycho-babble), the rest are Reserves.
• Actors start, one stage left and other stage right, but can move around from there.
• Each Actor has an assigned Id who stand in front of the stage, one on left, one on right.
• The Reserves sit in the front row of the audience, with the first in line ready to hop up.
• For large groups, you can add more actor-id pairs, but each has their own List of Emotions.

The Ids read an emotion from the list below and their Actor performs that emotion. The Id can choose whatever emotion they like and change it whenever they like (within reason, 10 to 30 seconds is good), After 5 emotions the Actor’s turn is over, and either the Id or the actor or the next Reserve hollers, “Next!” and then everyone advances: The Id takes the Actor’s place (passing the list of emotions to the next Id). The next Reserve becomes the Id and the discarded Actor bows and goes to the end of the line. Applaud the exiting Actor.

The Ids should not try to coordinate with each other. The fun of this game is the various combinations of emotions, so they should NOT change emotions together, or say, “Next!” together.

There are two ways to seat the Reserves. They can all move to the next seat when the first person gets up (singing, “Move over; Move over,” is fun), thus keeping the head of the line at the same spot, or they can stay in their seats and keep track of the head of the line by the empty seat. You can also have the Ids speak from their seat from the audience but it is harder for their actor to hear them.

Actors say their emotion, instead of lines, while acting. For example, saying, “disturbed, disturbed, disturbed,” while the other actor is saying, “whiny, whiny, whiny.” Actors may also toss in an appropriate comment such as, "Whiny, whiny, whiny, oh, why do you always walk away from me, whiny, whiny.." but should not devote themselves to it unless everyone is an advanced actor. Actors should react to each other, not the audience. The magic of this game is how seemingly incongruent emotions work together hilariously.

LIST OF EMOTIONS

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