How to Play Scripts in Improv
Scripts is an improv game that lets an audience member play in a scene with you, without worrying that the audience member won't say the right things. If this sounds interesting to you, read on.
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Instructions
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Have a good play script (or a few) ready at hand. A good script for this game is one where the dialog does not have too many long rambling paragraphs. Scripts that only involve two characters are often ideal for this particular game, since it will help fuel the head to head nature of the interchange between two characters on stage.
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Select a member from the audience, and instruct her to come on stage with a player from your troupe. Hand her the script you have chosen, and instruct her to read every other line in the script. Explain that she will be reading script lines, and that the player will be responding to each line.
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Be sure to hand the audience member the script already open to an appropriate page if your script is not appropriate for this game all the way through. Some troupes prefer to ask the audience for a random number, and start with the script open to that page.
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Get a scene suggestion from the audience, and begin the scene. The audience member should read a line from the script, and then the player responds to it as best she can. The key for the player is to take the audience suggestion for a scene, and make that the focus while interweaving everything the script-reading person is saying.
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The player on stage must generally be the one to state a final line and end the scene, since the audience member is simply reading a script and is unlikely to do so.
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Tips & Warnings
Use this game early on in a show to show the audience how easy and fun participating is.
Avoid scripts with too many different characters, or long florid descriptions.
