The troupe does improvisational games, which include audience participation and sketches written by the students.

"We're also more scene-oriented than Chicago City Limits, which focuses more on improvisational games."

The shape-shifting now taking place online, in cyberpickup joints and clubhouses, could move into the physical world, as theater is rejuvenated by becoming an improvisational game.

But in the improvisational and evolutionary game of Soviet politics, it is still not clear what powers and levers of national sovereignty Mr. Yeltsin won.

"I don't think I'll ever play him again like I did in Paris," said Chang, whose improvisational game plan stunned Lendl there last spring.

With neither prompting nor rehearsal, the troupe acts out a series of improvisational, party-style games.

Each year, teams of young people come together to compete in playing improvisational games over two-days.

The sketches were based on improvisational games which included poems, songs, a fictitious foreign movie and a scene which included the first and last line all given by audience members.

In rehearsals, he used techniques passed down by Viola Spolin and Paul Sills of improvisational "games" and role playing theories that encouraged freedom and spontaneity.

The show consists of four actors playing improvisational games.