How to Play
A player in the scene will be a narrator when an audience member rings a bell.
An audience member is given a bell.
The players begin to improvise a scene.
When the audience member rings the bell, a player in the scene must step forward and become a narrator. He or she will provided narration for the scene.
The narration can be very brief, because if the audience member wants more, they will ring the bell again.
The narration can be either first person or third person.
For example:
I stood there silently watching as my co worker typed at his computer. I know what I needed to say.
or
His co-worker continued to type at his computer. He didn’t see that he was no longer alone.
Notes
You can think of the narration as asides. Something that the audience knows but the characters don’t…which could create some fun.
Even though it has a narrator or multiple narrators, I would not call this a narrative challenge. It could be narrative, but generally the bell interrupts the story sending it on a tangent rather than developing it.
Origin
Not sure where this came from…but it’s a fun game.
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