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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

Longform Harold "From an audience member interview (FUNNY harold!)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtHljkrfZ8

Shortform Game "Direct A Scene" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md26-eguNBM

Longform Harold. Audience suggestion was "Queen" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52uMF6FHnpc

Shortform Game "Slide Show!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG6wckmVcs

Shortform game "Doctor Doctor!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us37hNHNyFA

Shortform game "Film Translation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRi0bmXQCqg

Longform Harold. Audience suggestion was Octopus! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllbhQlvI1E

The Breakfast Club (of Julius Caesar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md26-eguNBM

Improv Idol from 4/18/2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQO6aQaZgQg

Longform harold from an interview with an audience member (Broke back camping!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvlSr39xnUU

Traffic Stop shortform game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUjzlclEHo

Doctor Doctor! Shortform game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYYiMfEh-Y

The Good, bad and ugly advice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfSkDSbWhJs

Improv Idol! improv song sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-x8b7AJrUg

First Date Harold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSNH_pEgIE

Slide Show! (An audience favorite) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3UVpIxS8VA

World's Worst video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1jq_tlxia4

Party Quirks video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6_XMvxZu4U

Questions with the audience video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx1Oc3Erh-s

State Trooper Traffic Stop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnH59KNnYfk

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Advice video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLRZIkhXGqc

The Hesitation Game video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9M-oT056A

You Idiot! Game video (Like an Antique Show you requested) by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyJevN_1YlM

Pocket Lines video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxdR7q-sZU

Liars Auction created by Keith Hanshaw. Video of DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-0JYF_eqE

LifeSaver game video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfD4tW_4HVM

Direct a Scene game video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWdToPclXHA

Dating Game video by DBtS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81gScZUJaM

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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

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