One player starts with nothing and waits patiently until from very small movements (e.g. a moving hand) or occurrence (e.g. someone coughs, a church bell ...
On and off
The four players each get an adjective. When this adjective is spoken in the scene the player goes on stage if they are sitting at ...
One word game
A free improvisation in which, anytime someone speaks, only one word can be used. Of course you can ‘play’ with this word. Variation 1: One ...
Opera
A fully sung free improvisation. Musical style is often classical. Variation 1: if you use rock music you get a rock-opera. Variation 2: if you ...
Orakel
One player, the oracle, sits (on a chair) in the middle of the stage. The oracle is blindfolded and is wearing headphones, so that they ...
Paint from the inside
All players sit in a circle. Each player mimes that they have a ball in their hand the size of a ping pong ball. This ...
Painter
In the painter one of the players paints a painting. They do this by putting multiple elements on the stage that form the decor of ...
Passing a clap or whoosh
An exercise with a lot of variations. The core is as follows. The players stand in a circle. One player starts with passing the clap ...
Passing fruit (or something else)
A difficult exercise to explain, but a very fun exercise to do. Stand in a circle. One player starts by pointing at another player and ...
Passing objects
All players in a circle. One player has a gob of chewing gum (portray). With some ingenious modelling they create an object from it (varying ...
Pavlov
Two players get a relationship from the audience. A player leaves the room: for the other player the captain asks what their reaction is to ...
Pearl necklace
A player asks for a starting and ending sentence from the audience. The other six players take place one by one between the other players, ...
Perspective
First a short neutral scene is played with (at least) three players. Afterwards the audience is asked from the perspective of which player they want ...
Picture book
A storyteller reads from a book that has pictures (Tableau Vivant) with three dimensional people, played by the other players. They can walk through the ...
Play hell
The play hell is a game where one player is the storyteller, one person is all characters, one person does all the voices, and one ...
Playback
Two players play a free improvisation without sound, while the other players do their voices. Variation: One player does all the voices.
Playback opera
The playback opera is a playback in which there is sung in opera style.
Plea
(Suspect and Court, Suspect) There is a suspect and a lawyer. The suspect is suspected of a crime. This crime is asked of the audience. ...
Poem
A poem is recited, Imagery for this poem is provided by the other players. Just like in real poetry this can differ from a poem ...
Post-modern-jazz-earobics-poetry-cafe
A player will recite a poem, accompanied by two players on drums (that can be mimed). The other two players portray the poem in the ...
Press conference
A talk has just been given and now the press is allowed to ask some questions. This is the moment the game starts. The person ...
Pressure cooker
Two (possibly three) players play a short neutral scene that is then repeated three times in one particular emotion. This emotion is enhanced every time ...
Questions only
Two players (one of each team) play a short scene together. In their conversation however they are only allowed to ask questions. For example: “Hello ...
Rap
Song in a certain musical style, in which there is a rap (rhythmic way of talking). N.B. Often there is made use of a human ...
