Audience Participation
- Mannequins: Two actors act out a given scene. While they can speak, they can only move when moved by two audience members/volunteers.
- Sound Effects: Two actors portray a normal scene, while two audience members provide all the sounds throughout the scene. (Ex. Actor says, "Listen to my chainsaw." Then audience member would make a chainsaw noise.)
- Your Big Break: Contestants perform a scene with an audience member reading lines from a card.
Guessing Games
- Celebrity Café: Each actor will be told the celebrity identity of the other two actors, but not his own celebrity identity. While in a café setting actors give each other clues to their identity until all have correctly guessed their identity.
- Customer Service: Audience provides an object and something not-so-obvious that is wrong with the object. (Example: a walrus that leaks oil.) One actor then returns the 'purchased' object, only he doesn't know what the object is. The customer service rep. and manager should give hints as to what the object is and what is wrong with it.
- Find Your Mate: One actor, guest star or audience member is a contestant on a dating type show and must guess the quirks or identities of the three actors through two rounds of questions.
- Party Game: One actor/audience member is hosting a party and must guess the unique quirks or identities of the three actors/guests.
- Press Conference: One actor is 'someone' announcing something at a press conference, however he does not know who he is or what he is announcing. The other actors are journalists whose questions give hints to the first actor's identity.
Interruption Games
- Change: A regular scene is played out, except whenever the MC rings the bell the actor that is doing something/saying something has to do/say something different.
- A Day With the Family: The audience gives a suggestion for a family activity then actors start a normal scene. Throughout the scene the MC freezes the scene, picks an actor, and asks for an emotion/quirk from the auidence. The scene then continues, and the actor is now overcome with that emotion/quirk. (Example: "Give me a quirk for grandma?" "Itchy!" Now grandma is itchy.)
- Expert Call-In Show: An actor is an expert on a topic of the audience's choosing. Another actor conducts an interview, while the other actors are callers or audience members with questions.
- Hesitation Speech: A speech is given based upon an audience suggestion. Whenever the actor hesitates, his 'aide' throws out suggestions to complete the speech. (Ex.: A- Global warming causes... um... B- Cats to bark; A- . cats to bark.)
- In & Out: Every actor gets a word from the audience and start a regular scene. When an actor's word is said by another actor, he must leave the scene if he's in it, or enter the scene if he was not in it.
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Music
- Coffee Shop: One actor performs a poem (as if at a coffee shop) based on an audience suggestion while the other actors act out the lines of the poem.
- Hoedown: The actors each sing a verse of a hoedown song based on an audience suggestion.
- Irish Folk Song: Actors each sing single lines in an Irish Folk Song on an audience given topic.
- Love Song: Actors each sing a verse of a love song to someone/something of the audience's choosing.
Old Favorites
- 2 Line Vocabulary: Three actors perform a scene. One actor can speak as much as he wants. The other two can only say two provided lines a piece.
- 90 Second Alphabet: In this game the actors must start each sentence of dialogue with a successive letter from the alphabet. The actors must completely go through the alphabet in 90 seconds ending with the letter they started.
- Director's Cut: A normal scene is played by three actors. A fourth actor plays a temperamental director who gives different suggestions to "improve" the scene which will then be re-enacted.
- Film, TV and Theatre Styles: Actors are given a scene and throughout it they are given various film/theater/TV styles to act it out in.
- Infomercial: Based on an audience suggestion, actors present products as a miracle cure for some short-coming (baldness) from provided random objects.
- Millionaire Show: Actors are host, contestant, audience member and phone friend in a styled/cultured Millionaire game show.
- Mundane Olympics: Two actors are sportscasters commentating on a mundane activity competition (dishwashing) while a third actor is competing in the event.
- Scenes From a Hat: The MC pulls audience suggestions for scenes out of a hat, which the actors then step forward and perform.
- Superheroes: First actor gets from the audience a silly little problem (someone stole all the Polka music in the world) and the name of an unlikely hero (Capt. Cartwheel). As each actor joins the scene the previous actor will name him until all four actors are there to save the day (hopefully).
- Wacky Newscasters: A news anchor has a co-anchor, sportscaster and weather/traffic reporter with strange quirks/identities.
- What'd He Say?: The MC gets a foreign language from the audience. One actor gives a 'speech' in that language. The other actors compete to translate the 'speech'.
- Whose Line: Two actors act out a scene incorporating audience-suggested lines on pieces of paper given to them.
Story Telling Games
- One Voice: Our 'expert' consists of two actors speaking simultaneously in "One Voice" to answer the audience's question(s).
- One Word At a Time: Two to four actors tell a story based on an audience suggestion while each actor may only contribute one word at a time.
- Play Acting: Two to four actors will act out a normal scene, however one actor's lines will be supplied by a scripted play (Ex. Romeo and Juliet or Glass Menagerie).
- Slide Show: One actor is provided an activity by the audience, then presents a slide show as the other actors act out the activity.
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