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Performance Games

A performance game is a scene format that you can play in front of an audience and that hopefully they will find entertaining. Some games are considered to have more worth in THEATRICAL IMPROVISATION. For example "Stage Directions" get the performers focusing on the narrative of a scene and has great value in a show where the improvisers are struggling for stories. A "HOOP" game, (by it's very name) implies that it get's the improviser to jump through hoops like trained dogs doing tricks like "Switch the Accent" game... Little worth except to show a clever improviser. Sometimes a Hoop game CAN be useful in the RIGHT show at the RIGHT time.

Some performance games

Adverb
Alphabet
Actor's Nightmare
Bong Bong Bong
Freeze Tag
Harold
He Said She Said
Inner Voices (aka Alter Egos, Consciences)
La Ronde
New Choice
One Syllable
Open Scene
Pants On - Pants Off
Park Bench
Party Quirks
Parrot Game
PhoneProv
Questions Only
Stunt Doubles
Song Titles
Superheroes
Three-Way Dub
Two Line Vocabulary
Typewriter
Vacation Photos (Slide Show)
What Are You Doing
Literature Game
That Sounds Like A Song
Voices from the other world
Whose Line
Oscar Winning Moment
Scenes From a Hat
Replay
Family Man

Please add more!

Some games that don't have pages yet

Antique Show
Faults Into Virtues
Charlie
Let's Make a Date/The Dating Game
Gibberish