1-2-3
Divide the group in pairs. Each pair is going to count to 3 together in the way: player A: ‘1’, player B: ‘2’, A: ‘3’, B: ‘1’, A: ‘2’, B: […]
3-Headed Musical Star
During the 3-headed Musical Star a musical is performed. Whenever somebody starts to sing, two extra heads pop up and the three of them will sing one word at the […]
30 Years Married
Two players have been married for 30 years and are having a ‘nice’ conversation. Meanwhile, two other players play as their thoughts and say what the married players are really […]
ABC-Game
Two players, one from each team, start a free improvisation where the first players starts a phrase with the letter A, the second with B, then the first again with […]
ACE
During the ACE, one player stands in front with three players behind them. The player in front will start telling a story using a suggestion from the audience. The three […]
Adoption
One player is an adopted child and leaves the room. The other players ask the audience for examples of famous people and pick two. These are the kid’s original parents. […]
Advertisement
One player has put something on Marktplaats (or e-Bay) for sale. Through a television interview we find out why this person is selling the item and what the emotional attachment […]
Amazing Discovery
In the well-known fashion of TV’s Amazing Discoveries (”Say Mike, what can I do with this?”), a new product is presented. This is done in a playback setting: two players […]
Associating
The group stands in a circle. The first player starts with a completely random word. The next player directly has to say the first word that comes to their mind. […]
Ballad
A song is sung in a specific musical style, requested from the audience. The song usually describes heroic events.
Ballet
A free improvisation performed dancing.
Bard
One player (the bard) tells a story by singing, possibly in short rhymes, while the other players act out the story. At times the players take over the story from […]
Bench
Three players sit next to each other on a bench and tell different stories while staring forward. A player can interrupt another player’s story by associating with a word the […]
Best Way to…
The presenter has a list of things made beforehand and is unknown to the players. The presenter then asks all players of both teams to show ‘the best way to…’ […]
Bucket of Death
Theatresports group Kattekwaad from Utrecht stole the show with this game at the NSK in 2003. It is a guaranteed success during demos or to get the audience in a […]
Company Shift
The Company Shift is a combination of the Soap and the Shift. You play the shift as you normally would, with two players in the front and two in the […]
Monkey Caging
The goal of the Monkey Cage is to make a story using as many game elements as possible. By rapidly using characteristics of different game structures the audience will keep […]
Red Light, Green Light
Player A stands with their back to the other players, who form a line at a proper distance (~5 meter) from player A. The goal of the other players is […]
Ridiculous Fashion Accessories
The game starts with a regular scene. When a teammate or the judges deem it necessary, they will clap their hands and request a ridiculous fashion accessory from the audience. […]
Shift
Four players stand on stage, in a square with ribs of 1.5 to 2 meters. They form the metaphorical revolving door, or shifting through couples of players. First, for all […]
Sly Poetry
This game is a free improvisation, in which the players express the (cunning) motivation of their actions in the form of poetic fragments. While playing, a player says “sly poetry,” […]
The Ice Age
The Ice Age is designed to be the same as the Space Jump. The four players ask for their suggestion, and then let the other team put themselves in a […]
World’s Worst
The audience is asked for an action which is then performed in world’s worst way possible (the world’s worst way to catch a fish, to kill your neighbor or to […]