How to Play
This improv game uses the audience text messages as lines of dialogue in the improvised scene.
Ask an audience member for their mobile phone.
Open up their texting app (or section). Open one particular thread of texting.
One player reads 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 spoken by the other player.
Notes
This game is similar to the improv game “Playbook” where a player uses a play for their lines of dialogue and the rest of the cast has to make sense of the scene.
These are text messages that have already been sent and are in the text logs on the phone.
Origin
This games comes to us from Kimberley McLean of BATS Improv. It was first performed by Kim, Corey Rosen and Zoe Galvez.
See also TXT Me
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