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Gripe Line

(6 players)

Players line up and are assigned a gripe topic by the audience.  They then give improvised rants on each topic until the rants reach a fever pitch, begin to mesh together, and the game reaches a suitable conclusion.   

Rivals / Play-by-Play

(4 players)

Two players are designated competitors in some sort of competition.  It may be ridiculous, like a World’s Greatest Clotheswasher contest or a World’s Best Student competition.  They mime the entire contest, often becoming violent in the pursuit of victory, as the other two players provide play-by-play commentary on the match. 

Slide Show

(4 players)

One player is asked to show a slideshow from his/her recent vacation.  The vacation locale is retrieved from the audience.  The other three players in the scene portray whatever is supposed to appear in each slide.  The presenter talks directly to the audience about each slide individually, while the “slide” prepares to freeze.   When the presenter says “click” or provides some other type of signal that he has flashed the slide on the screen, the “slide” performers must freeze in position.  The presenter then turns around and describes to the audience what exactly was going on in each particular picture.  If it makes no sense, he/she must make sense of it. 

String of Pearls

(8-all players)

A player steps forward and to the audience’s extreme left and provides the first sentence in a story.  Another player steps forward and to the extreme right and provides the last sentence.  A third player steps forward to center stage and provides the middle sentence.  The rest of the players fill in the rest of the story, providing sentences one at a time.  Each time a new player steps forward and contributes, the story is spoken left to right, until finally the story has been completed by the last player.

Stunt Doubles

(5 players)

One player portrays a movie director filming an on-location action flick, in some sort of dangerous locale or scene.  Two of the other players portray the actors, who play a movie suggestion as if they are big name action celebrities.  At certain points during the scene, as the “real actors” are about to fall into certain danger, the director calls “Cut!” and freezes the scene, inserting in their place, the other two players, the “stunt doubles,” who receive the brunt of the torment, and once the danger subsides, are taken back out of the scene so that the “actors” can continue acting.  The “stunt doubles” retain each injury obtained during the scene, throughout the scene.