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One actor leads the scene and is free to say whatever they want. Two of the other actors however, are restricted to speaking only lines of dialogue that they read from scripts given out to them by the host.

Actors begin a scene and at various points the host will tell them to ‘move on’ and give them a specific time frame to jump to such as, “five minutes,” “two hours,” or “three years.” The actors in the scene will then carry out the scene in the future.

Two actors begin as movie critics talking about the movie the audience suggested. These two actors can speak to anything about the movie and eventually they will show clips from the film to reiterate their criticisms or praise. The other actors will then act of the movie clips based on the dialogue from the critics.

One actor portrays a scientist presenting their recent study to the audience. Other actors create stage pictures to resemble slides and the presenting actor then describes the people onstage as if they are part of a picture they took during their research.

Actors begin a scene and at any point the host may use the buzzer or call out “New Choice” and the last actor who spoke must change their last line of dialogue. This can repeat to completely change the context of the scene.

Just like, "Last Line, First Line" but with a twist. Four actors form two individual scenes with two of the actors, one from each scene, also forming a third scene in the middle. When one scene is running the others are paused but at any time an actor may use the last line of dialogue to continue their scene. For the two actors in the middle, they can choose to use their own line of dialogue twice in a row. Once at the scene they're currently in and then again in the scene they're moving on to.

Six actors are put into teams of two and then split up around the stage. One team of two takes center stage and prepares to act out a scene that will be suggested by the audience. The second team comes off stage and faces the audience and is unable to watch the scene as it plays out but they can hear it. The final team stands to the side of the stage and may watch, but they must wear headphones to prevent them from hearing anything.

The first team gets a suggestion from the audience and then performs a scene until it's conclusion. Then, the next team, those that could hear but not see, takes the stage and they try to preform the exact same scene without prior knowledge of the physicality that last team had. Finally, the last team takes the stage having seen the scene play out twice physically but hearing nothing, and they must try to recreate the scene based on only the physical actions of the other actors, filling in the narratives gaps with their best ideas.

Two actors play characters, a detective and a person with a problem, while the other two actors portray the characters’ inner monologue. The scene begins with the first character entering the office of the detective. When the actor enters the dialogue begins with the detective’s inner monologue saying something about the character entering the scene. Example: “From the moment she walked in I could tell she was trouble. Her legs quivered and she was twitching like she had narrowly escaped a pursuer.” The detective then speaks a brief line of dialogue attempting to incorporate all the details spoken by the inner monologue. Next, the inner monologue of the other character speaks before that character gives a line of dialogue. As the scene goes on, the pattern is always, Inner Monologue one, Character one, Inner Monologue two, Character two.

Each actor in the scene is assigned a number of words they must use in each line of dialogue. Typically these numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 but can be anything. The actors then begin the scene where they are only allowed to speak lines of dialogue with as many words as they were assigned.

Two actors begin a scene working onsite at a job. The new actor enters later as a new employee still showing traits from their past profession. The two actors who began the scene then try to explain the profession or adapt to the new actor.