Attention Stranger Than Fiction fans! We (still) need your suggestions. Our epic medieval fantasy show was such a hit we’ve decided to continue with this interactive format.
Please post (below) a genre or historical setting to base a one-night-only, full length show performed during the second half of our weekly Tuesday Night Improv shows at The Players’ Ring. We’re looking for genres, time-periods, TV shows, or books (for example, Western, Star-Wars, The Hardy Boys, crime drama). We’ll select a suggestion and perform a full-length, improvised show set entirely in the world you suggested. So what’s it going to be? Robin Hood? Disney movie? Cops and gangsters?
What kind of suggestion are we likely to choose? Here are some tips:
Be brief. Try and sum it up in the name of a genre, movie, book, or TV show. If your suggestion is more than four words you might be providing more details than we really need. Which leads to the next suggestion.
Be general. If you lay out all the details we’re left with little to make up on our own. We can do so much more with “John Hughes movie” than with “teenagers in Wisconsin, 1986 at a drive-in with their robot friends.”
Cool? Cool. See you on Tuesday!
Gilligan’s Island/Murder mystery. Gilligan’s going to hang unless you can prove his innocence. Lord of the Flies meets Gilligan’s Island when Lovey is found stuffed in a large coconut
Saturday Morning Cartoons in Medieval Europe. Just what WOULD Medieval Europeans allow their children to watch on tv (if they HAD tv…or a time machine)?
I would love to see a long form done in the universe of the Phantom Tollbooth. Or a slapstick comedy from the 30′s. Or preferably, both.
I vote for Gone with the Wind
A gathering of friends and enemies at Kermit the Frog’s house!
A theater. Much like the one you’re in. A board meeting is going on. Someone is murdered.
Am seeing the skit done in the Gumshoe style with the hardboiled detective, the sexy client/ possible murderer/murderess , weird person(s) giving random information that may or may not be useful, seemingly stupid but very shrewd secretary running the joint. Murder weapon can be the most random prop possible. Motives to be determined.
I always wondered what it would be like on the set in the making of the Wizard of Oz.
A group of businessmen/women in the VIP balcony of a Duran Duran concert, Chicago 1982
I’ve always thought there’s a special dorm or apartment complex in the afterlife set aside for Darwin Award winners — those who died under ridiculous or comical circumstances. Have each cast member research and select their favorite, and set the scene in the common area of Darwin Hall.
I think Captain Planet. He could be solving the current world issues or something, only with Captain Planet’s awesomeness.
In the trenches on Hoth while the Imperial army is invading with AT-AT’s
Who: A group of militant pacifists
Where: a gourmet taco truck
When: lunch time at the pesticide factory/rendering plant.
I would like to suggest the teachers room at an elementary school. No end of the stories and characters that could be developed from this.
a preschool playgroup is another idea
Jack the Ripper investigated by The Dukes of Hazzard.
Wow, great suggestions everybody. Thank you all. We will make our selection and announce it shortly. Hope all of you can make it Tuesday to see the show.
I suggest a 1920 Speak Easy, with flappers, and perhaps gangsters, but mostly flappers.
on a cruise to the caribbean
The local community pool/ splash pad
The rumors are true. We are indeed doing this again. Let the suggestions flow. If you like someone else’s idea, feel free to say “yeah, do that.”
Ghostbusters.
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Bonjour Tristesse: French sadness literature.
Sesame Street Mafia? Although, I do like the 1920s Speak Easy idea as well (flappers and gangsters included). Or Woodstock ’69.
Three ideas:
1) Inside the human body
2) The White House
3) Lindsey Lohan’s Prison Cell
OH! OR…in a world where all inanimate objects are personified!!!
Mad Max: Beyond Blossom
The characters of Blossom struggle through a future led by anarchy.
Two words – Babysitters Club
Hitlers Cubicle
A traveling circus/carnival.
A marauding band of Main woodchucks surround the pumpkin festival
A marauding band of Maine woodchucks surround the pumpkin festival
My spell/grammer check committed suicide
grammar!!!!! auauauauauauauauaghghghghg
Regency era England romance (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibilty).
Good suggestion, Lea. Thing is, a few STF cast members were involved in a show with that very premise at Improv Boston a few months back. It was called Wheel of Austen.
I like the circus/carnival suggestion. What else have you guys got? Tomorrow we’ll pick one and start developing our characters. We received a comment from someone who thought our last foray into this format was actually scripted. So, to make this perfectly 100% clear. Even though we get the suggestion ahead of time and develop the characters in rehearsal, the show you will see on Tuesday is still totally made up as we go along.
You guys should do a Flinstone’s epic, the other people of Bedrock.
l was also thinking of the Brave Little Toaster and everyone could be household objects.
Mad Men is hot right now, maybe a ’60s ad agency?
l don’t know! Whatever ya’ll choose will be fantastic, l am suure