The Life Game

Welcome to The Life Game

The Life Game combines interviews with improvisation to create an electrifying radio storytelling event performed in front of a live audience.

Begins June 28th on CBC Radio One

How The Life Game works

7 years ago
Duration 0:55
The Life Game is a new show on CBC Radio that uses improv actors to animate people's life stories. Watch this video to find out how it works.

The Life Game combines interviews with improvisation to create an electrifying radio storytelling event, performed in front of a live audience.

The format is the brainchild of Keith Johnstone, the godfather of improvisation and founder of the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary, and has been performed on stages around the world.

​​​​​​Each 30-minute episode is based on one person's life story — their successes and failures, hopes and dreams, love and loss — told as a live interview interspersed with improvised scenes.

The Life Game airs on CBC Radio One on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) beginning June 28.

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