Audience Participation Plays
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Topic: Audience Participation Plays
Posted By: JGrigsby
Subject: Audience Participation Plays
Date Posted: 5/07/14 at 9:55pm
After a great season with the first musical at my high school since 1961 ... it's time to start planning next year's season.
My kids and I love to break the fourth wall and have audience participation in out plays. During the Soemwhat True Tale of Robin Hood two shows ago, when it came time to fill Robin's band of merry men, we pulled audience members on stage to be part. Robin was able to interview the people, decided if they were to be in his band or not, then we worked them into the show. There were mentors there to help them with cues. This was a huge hit and the audience loved it.
Does anyone have a show or would share titles of shows seen where the actors get to work the audience into the show?
And a wuick note of thanks to all of you in this forum. You have been great and helped me in so many ways!!! Thank you!!!
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Posted By: Martin
Date Posted: 5/26/14 at 6:39am
Tooting my own horn here: a number of my shows have elements of audience participation:
Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl has a flexible cast of 21 and is published by Heuer Publishing. www.hitplays.com
Synopsis: Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl is a modern melodrama that chronicles a ridiculous day and the challenges and struggles of a young woman who makes a living manufacturing doughnuts and sweet pastries in a small town doughnut factory. Structured as a radio program complete with phony commercials, parody songs, audience participation, and listener call-in spots, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl stretches theatrical forms but is deeply rooted in awful puns and wrapped around an apple pie and a cup of coffee of small town life.
Types: Full Length Play, Community Theatre
Genres: Comedy, Melodrama
Cast: 6 men, 7 women, 8 extras, flexible cast, 21 total
A two-act murder mystery, The Man in Seat 24 or (The Uninvited Guest), has a cast of 15- 8 females and 7 males is published by Brooklyn Publishers. www.brookpub.com
Synopsis: An irate, rude, and combative theatre patron (in your audience!) hijacks the cast, the crew, and his fellow theatre-goers and winds up stone cold dead at center stage. The Man in Seat 24 Or (The Uninvited Guest) is a murder mystery, a play-within-a-play, where a harried and frazzled theatre director investigates a murder--during a night of theatre gone wrong--and realizes that there is more to this evening’s performance than meets the eye.
In this show (Act 2) the detective goes out into the audience for a bit of improv and quizzes them and questions them on the crime scene
Reindeer Games: A Christmas Pageant for Young and Old! Published by Lazy Bee Scripts. www.lazybeescripts.co.uk
Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 22. Minimum total without doubling = 57. Chorus. Could be done with a lot of doubling, but is intended as a large-cast piece.Suitable for a mixed-age group. For school groups, church groups, and community theatre.
Doubling, tripling possible, gender flexibility. The more the merrier!
Running time: 55-60 minutes.
Synopsis: Reindeer Games: A Christmas Pageant for Young and Old! is an evening of ragtag holiday merry-making, festivity, revelry, audience participation, happy yuletide songs, and jollification featuring: Elves, Fairies, Children, Choristers, Ancient Citizens, The Christmas Bear, Red Riding Hood and The Wolf, Rudolph and Clarisse, a holiday quiz show, The Giant Blunderbore, the retelling of the old mummers tale, Saint George and the Dragon, and Father Christmas himself!
Good luck in your search!
M.
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Posted By: Tyunglebo
Date Posted: 5/27/14 at 2:08pm
You've got The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). That invites audience interaction, though I don't know if it's "participation" per se.
The Night of January 16th draws members of the audience to sit as the jury for the trial around which the play is based. The audience comes to a verdict, and depending on which is chosen, a different ending is performed by the cast.
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Posted By: JGrigsby
Date Posted: 6/01/14 at 10:21pm
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll look at these and see what all is out there. Cheers!
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Posted By: bnk01
Date Posted: 6/17/14 at 1:52pm
The Christmas Princess from YouthPLAYS, inc has audience participation.
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Posted By: jonplaywright
Date Posted: 8/26/14 at 11:15am
Another audience participation possibility is The Goodcheer Home for Broken Hearts, a comic melodrama from James Grob, in which the audience gets to cheer and boo and more...
http://youthplays.com/play_details.php?play_id=319 - http://youthplays.com/play_details.php?play_id=319
Cheers,
Jon
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Co-Chair, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
Resident Playwright, Final Draft
YouthPLAYS, plays for young actors and audiences
http://www.youthplays.com - www.youthplays.com
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