Question for Theatre Sports Atheletes ... (Jeff? and anyone else that can help :) )

[tokenuser]

I have attended threatre sports (improv) competitions before - as an audience member, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

My wife had an idea for an academic panel presentation at a conference on the future of her research area. Her idea was to present the future "present tense" as if the discoveries had already happened, and how they goth there. Academic edutainment.

While talking about this, and knowing the people she was proposing for the panel with her, I suggested taking it up a notch and presenting it in the style of a theatre sports presentation.

So, the question I have is - does anyone have a guideline as to how you might accomplish this? Pretty much just after a guideline on how to run an event successfully.

Have to remember that these are academics, and (despite what people think as students) professors/PhDs do have a sense of humour - it just a little "different" (and drier) to the mainstream.

[trsjeff]

I have attended threatre sports (improv) competitions before - as an audience member, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

My wife had an idea for an academic panel presentation at a conference on the future of her research area. Her idea was to present the future "present tense" as if the discoveries had already happened, and how they goth there. Academic edutainment.

While talking about this, and knowing the people she was proposing for the panel with her, I suggested taking it up a notch and presenting it in the style of a theatre sports presentation.

So, the question I have is - does anyone have a guideline as to how you might accomplish this? Pretty much just after a guideline on how to run an event successfully.

Have to remember that these are academics, and (despite what people think as students) professors/PhDs do have a sense of humour - it just a little "different" (and drier) to the mainstream.

Boy, that's a pretty wide open question. Pretty sure there are a bunch of ways you could go about structuring an event like that. Have you considered actually hiring an improv troupe to come in and run it? I don't know what area of the country you're in, but if there are any decent improv companies in your area I'm sure they do "corporate events". Every improv group I've been a part of has been available to to themed improv stuff for specific groups. Usually there is a list of topics or facts that need to be worked in, and we would build a show around that. We used to do it for only a couple hundred bucks. I don't know if that is a feasible option for you, but you might want to look into it. Hope that helps.

-Jeff

[comhcinc]

threatre sports?..............that hurt my brain.

[heyseuss]

When on tour we have hotel olympics. Hallway bowling and spitting down stairwells . .... etc