Audience Text
Audience Text

Ask an audience member for their mobile phone.  Open up their texting app (or section).

One player uses the texts from the phone as his or her lines of dialogue during the scene.

The other players improvise their dialogue and justify the text lines.

Notes:  Similar to Playbook (which is already listed in The Improv Playbook available on this web site).

These are text messages that have already been sent and are in the text logs on the phone.

This games comes to us from Kimberley McLean of BATS Improv.  It was first performed by Kim, Corey Rosen and Zoe Galvez on February 20, 2010.

Yes you can with your buddies.

[Published April 11, 2010.  www.ImprovPlaybook.com]