"Friends for Life"

This is kind of a Harold-variant that we came up with for a 10-15 minute slot, but can obviously be adjusted for length.

The premise is that we follow a long-term friendship (given by the audience, or to avoid playing 'brother sister' every time, take what the audience suggests and do a little pattern web until you stumble upon a new relationship like carnies, etc.) in 6 scenes, the form of these scenes is:

The F.I.T. and the T.I.T.

One day, there were 4 of us at an optional practice and we were tired. We were tired of playing short form games and didn't feel like just messing around with scenes, so we decided to make up a form.

What elements should it have? Scene painting (something we hadn't done before), maybe a follow the leaver element where a character carries over to the next scene, and start and end with a group scene.

So we were Four Improvisers, Tired of shortform, which gave us the name, the F.I.T. You get an object from the audience and build your scene around that, putting in doors and describing where your group scenes will take place (something usually became a bar, or a vfw post, or an apartment). Those 4 characters that the four of you come out as (for ease we'll name them 1, 2, 3, and 4) all have a very close relationship, as any scene partners should.

After that Scene are 4 scenes each highlighting the outside life of one of those first 4 characters (1 and his wife, 2 and his doctor,. etc. Sometimes you have a 1 with 4 in one scene and in the 4th scene 4 and 1 are still together, but try to highlight one character over another as far as foiling).