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Blindfolded Scene
Also known as: Mousetraps
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★★established
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Players perform an improvised scene blindfolded, so every offer has to be heard rather than seen. The source also records a variation with mousetraps on the stage and players barefoot, which it introduces with 'not very nice but we've seen it done'.
Hold with care
- Improvising blindfolded in front of an audience is exposure on two counts at once
- The source's mousetrap variation involves barefoot players and live traps; the source itself is ambivalent about it, and this record carries it as something that is done rather than something to do
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · small-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Blindfolds
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Blindfolded_Scene.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia
status: checked · added 2026-08-31