Why did the physiotherapist don a cowboy hat and start slinging guns? If you’re at improv artiste Nasir Engineer’s social mixer events, this could be one of his quirky prompts that gets the conversations going. If it’s your lucky day, it could be something that actually unfolds right before your eyes. In this case, it did. “When the physiotherapist arrived at our event, she was shy and reserved, likely aware that most of the participants were much younger than her. She opened up gradually through the session, but when she went for the props and broke into a gun-slinging act, it caught us all off guard,” Engineer laughs.

Participants line up for an improv game at the social mixer