Long Forms

Apartment Building

The form apartment building all the scenes within a house play in different apartments. In these three to four storylines, stories with s...

Armando (named after Armando Diaz, based on an idea by Del Close) The Armando is similar to the format Melanie. An Armando might follow...

Books Parade

This long form can be played two different ways. In both variations the audience would be asked beforehand to bring books of poetry, shor...

Camp Fire

Basics Campfire is a narrative long form. It belongs to the horror stories genre. The stories are based on tales from the audience. Camp...

City Lifespacer is a long form played by Randy Dixon and Unexpected Productions when on tour in unfamiliar cities. City Lifespacer is a ...

Found Objects

In the long-form Found Objects the player brings everyday objects with them onto the stage. I deals with completly usuual objects but tha...

The Harold is a Longform developed by Del Close. The original form is described in "Truth in comedy" by Del Close and Charna Halpern. Bas...

3 players form 3 pairs. Players A and B : pair 1 Players B and C : pair 2 Player C and A: pair 3 Pair 1 begins and establishes their ...

The Melanie game was also developed by Del Close. At the start, a single player stands in front of the audience and takes a suggestion. ...

Peekabooker is a long format developed by Peekaboo. It is also know as ImproPoker. The basis is a simple deck of cards, originally wi...

For this long form, various objects from the theatre's prop collection (or from your attic, basement, second-hand shop, etc.) are placed ...

Origin The Reigen takes its model from the play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler. In the play, different characters appear one afte...

Santa Claus is dead and he needs a successor — that is what this evening is built around. Rough timeline Time in minutes — activity 00...

The game Slumdog Impronair is a long form game, inspired by the movie Slumdog Millionaire. The game begins with six contestants and a pr...

The name of the game Spokes is derived from the basic structure of this long form. A large number of scenes are grouped around a basic sc...

2–3 players · 50–90 minutes Premise: two people who don't know each other are forced by external circumstances to spend the night togeth...

In the long form Superhero, the central character is an ordinary person who, under particular conditions, gains superhuman powers and abi...

Superscene

Three to five people can take part in this game. Each of the players is responsible for one of the stories, as its director. He introduce...

The Hero's Journey refers both to a particular dramaturgical shape for stories and to a long form built on top of it. Dramaturgy The He...

The Milano

The Milano, composed and first played by the Belgian improvgroup; Salamie. It is a composition which contains 4 existing formats (games, ...

An improvised movie. It was originally developed by The Family under the direction of Del Close. They performed it as one of The Three Ma...

Five players take part in this long form: one detective (inspector), three suspects, one victim. It runs 30–45 minutes. Round 1: Introdu...

The seven year itch

The play comes from Doug Nunn and is a type of long form. It is best played with 3 women and three men + a presenter, and it takes about ...

Goal The format aims to lay open the simplification mechanisms of populism and then gradually reintroduce complexity and a plurality of ...

The peculiarity of this short long form is that the story is told backwards in five acts. To get a theatrical effect it is good practice ...

A piece for several players that can be performed as a short form, but also — with more story wrapped around it — as a long form. Every ...

Words that change the world

"Words that change the world" is a long form. At the beginning the audience can be asked for a place where the story begins. The audience...