Quick Description
Audience members TXT (text) lines of dialogue to the players during an improvised scene.
How to Play
One or more actors in the scene give their phone number to the audience. [Consider writing it ahead of time on paper or a white board.]
Ask the audience to text lines of dialogue and actions for the player(s) to incorporate during the scene.
Notes
- This improv game has the audience text lines of dialogue to the actors’ phones during the scene. I call it “TXT Me” because otherwise the actors are speechless.
- Similar to “Lines of Dialogue” (Audience pre-write lines on slips of paper) and “Playbook”
- Consider, that now the audience will have your phone number, which may or may not be fun for you. In fact one of our company members said she received a text much later that night from an audience member. She said it was cool.
- You could have them send dialogue and actions on social media (Twitter for example) and tag it with a hashtag of the actors name. Which could be good advertising for your theater company.
- See also the improv game Audience Text
Origins
I first saw this game played by Kasey Klemm and Zoe Galvez of BATS Improv in San Francisco.
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