A scene from the end of the act called "Props." Freshmen Richard Helmer, Katie Myers, Mirek Chodkowski and Laura Kaplan, along with senior Wyatt Grossman and junior Jennie Graff are featured. Photo by Adam Glazer.

Despite terrible weather, the Whittier Woods auditorium was full of students, parents and members of the community last Tuesday excited to see the Tuesday Night Live Improv Night. The performance, put on by the theater class under English and theater teacher Ashley Houghton, consisted of nine acts almost as quirky and funny as“Whose Line Is It Anyway.”

The theater students are currently learning about improvisation in class, and aside from this show have also produced an improv at the Bethesda Metro station, which can be found on Youtube.

“We had planned for about three weeks and were put into groups to talk ideas out,” freshman Johnny Poffley says of the show.

The first act, aptly named “Props,” consisted of students acting with different items, but using them unconventionally. For example, a stuffed snake became a lasso,a baseball bat became a machine gun and a bouquet of flowers became a broom.

Most of the following acts required the audience to shout out a theme or a word that the troupe would act out. My personal favorite was a skit where one actor could rewind, fast-forward, pause or change the language of the other actors who were performing a Matrix-like scene.

Skits like “Party Quirks,” where actors came to a party with various ailments, such as thinking they are Voldemort, played out like a Mad-Lib on stage and got many laughs from the audience.

The finale was “Scenes from a Hat,” in which the actors picked different subjects or scenarios out of a hat that were written down by the audience before the show.

Some of the students, like freshman Richard Helmer, have performed improv before, but most of the cast, like junior Katie Quinn had not.

“It was a little stressful, but a lot of fun,” Quinn says. “For each skit we were able to put our own personal spin on it, so it was more meaningful than something that was scripted.”