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Games to try
Individual games to warm up
- Energy 1-10: It is better to walk at different speeds
Group games in circles
- Alliterations with a ball
- Fruit Basket with chairs
- Chivalrous Couples Each of the three chivalrous couples has its own formation that goes with it. The Knight and Queen's formation is one person as the “Knight” down on one knee and the other person as the “Queen” sitting on the “Knight's” knee. The Prince and Princess formation is one person as the “Prince” will have the the other person, the “Princess,” in their arms. The Horse and Rider formation is the “Horse” will be standing up and the “Rider” will be riding piggy-back on the “Horse.”
- Kennedy with many figures and characters
Circles: Accepting
Games in pairs: CROW
Listening
- Abstract Art
Georgi knows the game and could describe it - Talk mirroring: Two players say the same words at the same time. Who leads and who follows is changed continuously.
Games in pairs - Emotions and accepting
- 3+1: Three players get three emotions from the audience. Then a fourth starts a scene in a location and one of the emotions comes in. After a while, he is replace by the other players, who has to justify the emotional change. The scene continues with different emotions. From Georgi's group
Playing Scenes
Playing Scenes - Topic: Emotions
Playing Scenes - Topic: Places
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Playing Scenes - Topic: Objects
Playing Scenes - Topic: Give and take
- One player starts doing an abstract action in the middle of the circle. Other players go to the centre of the circle and imitate him. Then each player has to say an sentence related to that action. One can be supportive by saying “I will do it for ever”
- One player goes to the centre of the circle and starts singing a well-known song. The other player on the circle sing the song. When he gets stuck, a new player comes and starts singing another song
Playing Scenes - Topic: Always playing an action on stage
- The conscience: With 2 players and two people as the conscience
- Talking and moving pairs; One pair can only move and play an scene. The second one tells what is going on in the scene. This is a variation of Puppets
- In a date watching the public: Two players are standing watching to the public, they can't turn their heads to see the other player. They are in a date and the moderator propose movements, like giving the salts, opening the shirt, to hold the other one. There is no contact between both players.
Playing Scenes - Topic: Character development
- World worst, best, quietest, quickest: with professions, hobbies, roles, ad spots or situations like a marriage proposal. Playing scenes longer with 3-4 players with their characters
- Ausschneiden und Einfügen: (in German) The moderator removes someone from the scene (“cut”) or he adds him back (“add”). The other players play if he is still there.
- Solo-Dreieck: One player in front und two behind. When the moderator clash the develop a character. It may be written on post-its.
- The Gauntlet Split a character every 60 seconds for 10 minutes
Playing Scenes - Topic: Narrative / Storytelling
The group enjoyed these games
- Honk and bell/ New choice: two people from the audience with a long marriage should guide two actors on how their first date went using sounds: hong - wrong, bell - right.
Storytelling
Games in pairs
- Row description and actions: The group sits in two rows. In one row the players must describe the scene. On the second one, the players must add actions to the scene. Then the story returns to the second player of the first row and the story continues.
- Best/Worst: The second player clashes to change the direction of the story
Exercises
Playing scenes
- Mantra: A mantra like “I am a creature of the world”, “I am happy” changes the mood of an scene
- Only Questions: Storytelling with questions
- Heldenreise
Long Form - Radio stations: Every person receives a different kind of radio stations (sports, news, metal music). The moderator then points to someone and he has to talk as he were on a programme.
- Scene with sounds: Two person of the audience will make sounds on two microphones while two players play a scene. The players must justify and accept the sounds given to them
- Choose your own adventure: Two players start a scene based on a suggestion. After the place and the characters are established, the moderator freezes the scene and gives two options to the audience. The audience must decide what it comes next. Afterwards the scene continues until the moderator freeze it again and propose two alternatives
- A variation is more, less or another thing which means exagerate, decrease or other object or topic
Playing Scenes - Topic: Status
- Einer zu viel: 3-5 players and one must be kick off the group
- Foreign languages: One player stands on the stage. He speaks about whatever he wants. Then the moderator clashes and propose a foreign language like Chinesish, Russinan, Spanish, French. The player must not only simulate this language but also change his body language. One variant would be that many players are playing a scene and new language changes the nature of the story.
Simple Rules for creativity
- Name three things: game to show this. First round: Name the things that you see. 2. See an object and name the previous object which you have seen 3. See an object and name any other object. What is easier?
Playing Scenes - Topic: Spontaneity
- Barney Naming objects with the same letter
Playing scenes with musicians
Guessing Games
- Arbeitsamt: People come to the employment office and want to have a profession which the adviser don't know what it is about
- Dating game with three endowment
Games for the DANCE Festival
- Dance with different music
- There are four players on stage: Wenn the music stars, the first player starts dancing with his finger. The second player can move this fingers and arms. The third one the upper body and the last one everything.
- Last line with intermediate movements: Three players get strage positions/poses from the audience. They have to play a scene and use every opportunity they have to put themselfs in that pose.
These games use instrumental music.