Blind Line

In Blind Line, three or four players step out while the audience calls out words and phrases — objects, jobs, titles, anything. Each one gets written on a slip and scattered on stage. The players come back and start a scene. Whenever they like, someone grabs a slip and turns it into a question: "What's the deal with..." plus whatever's written there. Then they weave that question into the scene like it belonged all along.

• Send 3-4 players out of earshot.
• Ask the audience for words and phrases, and write each on a slip of paper.
• Scatter the slips on stage.
• Bring the players back and start a scene.
• Mid-scene, a player picks up a slip.
• They immediately ask "What's the deal with [word on the slip]?" and fold it into the scene.

• Slips of paper, a pen or marker, and a little stage space to scatter them. (And an audience, of course.)

• Can be combined with Actor's Nightmare.
• Similar to Evil Stick of Gum and Mrs. Butterworth.
• Blind Line 'Typewriter' is mentioned as a variation.