St. Olaf’s improv troupe, Scared Scriptless, hosted their “Whose Script Is It Anyway?” show on Friday, March 13. The show featured various improvisational games in a spinoff of the popular comedy game show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” One such game was “Superheroes,” in which the audience was tasked with suggesting made-up superheroes for the actors to play and a crisis for them to face. The scene took a wacky turn as superheroes Short Shorts, Tall Jeans, Mister Misery, and Mustache Man were challenged with a pizza shop flooded with anchovies.
Some of the games required the actors to adhere to bizarre and silly rules, such as the troupe’s take on “Sit, Stand, Lie Down,” a stage awareness game that requires that one actor be sitting, one actor be standing, and one be lying down at all times. Scared Scriptless added their own twist to the game by casting a fourth member to the scene, who had to be continuously dancing.
The show also included two musical breaks, a hoedown, and an Irish drinking song, during which select actors had to improvise song lyrics given an audience-suggested theme. These moments in particular elicited many laughs and applause from the audience as they were wowed by the actors’ quick and witty rhyming skills.
Scared Scriptless will be hosting their first long-form improv show “West End” on Friday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. It is sure to be a riot. I would encourage everyone to check it out, and prepare for a night full of laughs.
