How to Play the Improv Game Interrogation

Interrogation is an improv game that works well for an audience and challenges the skill of the players. Read on to find out how to play.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Improvisers
• Space to play
• A decent frame of reference
• A place to leave your inhibitions

How to Play the Improv Game Interrogation

1. Select your players. For Interrogation, you will need one player to act as a criminal and two players to act as detectives.

2. Send the criminal out of the room so that you can take audience suggestions that will guide his "confession." The criminal will be guessing four things: who he is, who he was with, what they were doing and where they were doing it. The crime in question should be silly and playful. The criminal can be anyone from any era in history. The same goes for his accomplices. What they were doing should not be a real crime, but something fun like "painting the Statue of Liberty." The location does not have to match any of the previous suggestions. For example, if the crime was "painting the Statue of Liberty," the location could be "in a school cafeteria."

3. Bring the criminal back on stage and begin the interrogation. The job of the detectives is to lead the criminal to guess her accomplice and crime through verbal clues. The detectives should act as if they are speaking with a suspect, using leading questions and verbal clues to help the criminal guess what she has done.

4. The game ends when the criminal successfully guesses all four parts of his "confession."

Tips & Warnings

• Respect your criminal's frame of reference. If you know that your criminal doesn't follow politics, for example, making her accomplice an obscure congressman will make the game tedious and dull the fun.