Alphabet

Title or location given. Players improvise the scene beginning each new line of dialogue with the next consecutive letter of the alphabet. Hilarity ensues! Time constraint: 3 or 4 minutes  

Mime

Situation, location or title from the audience. The scene is played entirely without spoken words. The musician provides the score while the players act out a scene. Hilarity ensues. Time constraint: One minute!  

I love you scene

Situation from the audience. The team plays a scene in which the words “I love you” must be spoken by one of the characters and their words fully justified. Hilarity ensues. Time constraint: One minute

Death in a minute

Situation from audience. Within one minute, at least one of the characters must be dead and that death must be fully justified and mourned appropriately. Hilarity ensues! Time constraint: One minute!

In a… with a… while a…

Audience supply the location, some accompanying object and some action or event for the players to incorporate into a scene. Hilarity ensues! Time constraint: One minute!

Word at a time story…

Title from the audience. The team members tell a story with each player speaking one word at a time. They may physicalise the story as they tell it. Hilarity ensues. Time constraint: One minute!

Seduction

Situation from the audience. [Maybe a dare] A scene in which one player’s character is reluctantly convinced to do some action that other players’ characters eventually seduce them into doing. Hilarity ensues. Time constraint: One minute!

Status transition

Title from the audience. Two players begin with clearly defined, diametrically opposed, status. (Example: Master and servant; Boss and employee) During the scene the characters stay the same but the situation changes and the status, switched. Other players may assist in the advancing of the…

He said… She said…

Location from the audience. Game where players describe the actions of their partners onstage. Example Player 1 says. “I’d like to talk to you Mabel” Player 2 says(referring to player 1): “he said, standing and putting his hands on his hips” Player 2 continues: “All…