This week we started our game of Fiasco. It is a group improv acting game. The hardest part about the game is not actually playing the game, but setting up location, character motives and relationships. You are just surrounded by choice and do not know exactly what it all means for you and your character until you start playing. Once the game starts you come up with scenes to drive action between the characters and to push the game forward. In the game I was kinda the evil scary “mob boss” character. People owed me money and my weird relative, who is also into crime, has a serious drug problem which I tried to help. My character’s goal was to get back at my high school enemy for stealing my true love.
In my real life my friends from high school would love this game. They were all in the theaters and musicals so improv is a lot easier for them. My friend Cate would love this game most since acting has always come easy for her and she would be good at helping lead the scenes. In my group we struggled a lot of progressing the scenes into something else and were caught up on the scene in the moment. It takes someone to lead the scene to a new discovery to progress the game. I could see my personal values of family come to play when I emphasised getting help for my weird relative because the other relationships did not stay loyal throughout the scenes. Additionally, the value of having fun came out once I stopped being anxious about acting, we all just had fun with it and laughed even if it did not make the most sense.