Games

Action emotion detail

A player tells a story. Three other players give the narrator a sign (touch, sound, gesture) if they want to hear more action, more emoti...

Advance and Expand

Introduction This exercise focuses on raising the stakes and exploration of the environment. Please set up a scene. Description The pl...

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...

Backwards Interview

This game is based on a fictional interview. The twist is that you start with the last sentence, and end with the first sentence; thereby...

Before or after

In this game, the audience directs indirectly by making decisions. 2 or more players play a free starting scene. After the scene the au...

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...

Conducted Story

Introduction Let’s get four or five players in a line and one person to conduct a story. Description The goal of the conducted story i...

Expedition

In this game for 4 people there is a moderator and an expert who has has been on an expedition. However, the expert only speaks the lang...

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...

Gibberish

Gibberish (also gromolo) is a kind of pretend language which consists of a series of imaginative, but meaningless letter and word sequenc...

Gibberish Circle

All players form a circle. One of them steps into the center and explains through some gestures something in gibberish. After the player ...

Gossip

Gossip means that a player talks about something that is taking place or has taken place elsewhere. No interactions takes place. Example...

Guiness Book

Pick an entry at random from the Guinness Book of World Records. Do a scene illustrating how this record was broken.

Headline

Ask for a headline (or get a headline at random from the newspaper). Do a scene that could have lead to that headline.

I got a better idea!

I got a better idea! 3 players stand side by side, slightly in a semicircle. The middle one starts to tell a story. Every action, every ...

La Ronde

The Round Dance follows the model of the same name from Arthur Schnitzler. In this play, different characters appear on the stage one aft...

Last sentence

The public is asked to provide a sentence in advance, which later must be incorporated as the last sentence in the scene. It is followe...

Long Form

Long forms are more or less closely connected sequences of scenes, usually from 20 to 45 minutes in length, but also full-length formats ...

One word story

One-word stories come in several forms: All in a row 4 or 5 players line up in a row. The audience dictates the title of the story and ...

Pearl string

A game for any number of players, but preferably more than 3 to tell a little story. All players line up in a line. Player 1 takes two...

Quintet

At first five different scenes are played. The audience then decides on one of these scenes to be removed. The remaining four scenes cont...

Rollback

A scene is alluded to. A third person (player or moderator) is at the edge of the stage and stops at some point. Now, a striking event fr...

rumours

All players in the circle. A quick warm-up game to practice making offers, accepting and enlarging them. Player A asks his neighbour pla...

Silent post

The gamemaster and two players are in the room Player A gets now a guideline and has to improvise a monologue straight away. Player B wa...

Slideshow

Several actors depict a scene in mime. A presenter then spontaneously describes what can be seen in that picture On a given command t...

Story Solo

One player stands in front of 4-5 players who are sitting with they backs to the public. The main player starts telling a story for a cou...

Storytelling with movements

This exercise is played in groups of three. Two players face each other, while a third one stands next to the first player. The first p...

Stringency

Stringency is a component of the dramaturgical list of ingredients of improvisation theater. Stringency means that the happenings on the ...

Telling a story

Form two-person teams - both players tell a story together. The first one starts, like, "Let's take a vacation." The second one always ...

The Butterfly Effect

a modification of anti-freeze tag where the plot* begins by going in reverse chronological order and then the first scene (in terms of st...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The audience is asked for a problem or an Issue, for which the audience would like to have a piece of advice or information. In the follo...

The Milano

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

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 ...

The Talkshow

There are 2 main types of Talkshows. The "serious discussion" type programmes, which generally go out evenings (experts/politicians di...

Three dead characters

Three (or four) players stand in a row on the stage and the host asks the audience for a type of death for each of them. The players now ...

Throwing light

This exercise is for more than 4 players. Two players choose a topic of conversation and the other players have to guess the topic. The ...

Time travel

We will first present a simple neutral scene that is based on a suggestion from the audience. Then we will see a series of scenes that le...

Typewriter

The title of a book that does not yet exist is queried. One of the players is the narrator. He is located at the edge of the stage. He si...

Walking Backwards

The "walking backwards into the future" is an exercise, but can also be used as a presentation. One player stands at the front of the st...

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...

Yes, and because

An exercise for 2 players. The two of them sit shoulder to shoulder on two chairs and play a kind of* one* person, namely an expert who t...

Yes, and then

An exercise for 2 players. The two of them experienced something together and told each other about it while they were replaying it. The ...