PDQ Shakespeare

A solo or group playwrighting game to play until the food arrives

This is a tiny game you cut out and keep in your pocket (or wallet, or bag) for liminal occasions, such as sitting at the table waiting for your order. Improvise a five-act play whose arc is decided at random and whose core image has almost nothing to do with Shakespeare.

"For tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited." -- Polonius, Hamlet, Shakespeare