Drama Games

Welcome To Drama Games

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:01:02 +0000

Your free educational resource, dedicated to games and exercises to be used to develop skills used in the performing arts. As all drama teachers and practitioners know, drama games are an invaluable resource for teachers for use in their acting classes especially in drama classes for kids, they fundamental for team building, developing communication skills and confidence building, they allow learners to understand how to engage with activities by placing particular demands on the learner.

This resource is designed as an action research project, aimed at improving the quality of teaching in the life long learning sector, it attempts to not only provide quick, accessible games for basic ice breakers, warm ups and team building skills etc, it also attempts to compile further categories that link development exercises to support current curriculum studied in vocational and further education, moreover by contributing to this site, users are able demonstrate their commitment to the new lluk overarching professional standards and values.

As this is an action research project the site cannot develop without the contribution of current teachers, practitioners and other interested parties. So feel free to upload, contribute and make suggestions of how this site can further improve the quality of teaching through collaboration and resource sharing.

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Fruit Salad
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Freeze improv
Group starts in a circle, or can work in pairs. A person then enters circle and freezes in a dramatic pose. Another person must then ...
Follow the hand
Have Learners form lines in chronological order, based on a given set of criteria. The set of criteria must require the learners to interact in ...
Find your place
Have Learners form lines in chronological order, based on a given set of criteria. The set of criteria must require the learners to interact in ...
Traffic Lights
An active physical warm up game, this game is so versatile I have seen endless variations adding and changing different rules, however the basic principle ...

Accept Change pass

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:02:27 +0000

A learner takes an imaginary object from an imaginary box, uses it, then passes it on to the next learner, who changes the object into a different imaginary object. The emphasis is initially on the students use of basic mime and imagination.

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This is a….
For this example I have used the words I usually use which are tick and tock, however these words can be changed to anything. It ...
The Mysterious Object
Activity, go round in a circle and tell a story about the origins of the object and how it came here. Each person can add ...
Antiques Experts
Participants sit in a circle. The leader of the workshop takes any small, easily handled object in the room e.g. a pen, notebook, informing the ...
Anything but the item
Anything but the item, pupils take it in turn imagine another use for the prop except its actual purpose, by giving a demonstration of the ...
Mirrors
Divide group into pairs. Partners face one another about a meter apart. Learner A initiates movement, and Student B mirrors Student A’s actions. Stress co-operation, ...

Antiques Experts

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:01:59 +0000

Participants sit in a circle. The leader of the workshop takes any small, easily handled object in the room e.g. a pen, notebook, informing the participants that it is an extremely rare artefact, and that they must explain what it is, as antiques experts. They take it in turns to handle the object as it goes around the circle, offering a creative explanation for its design and function. It is advisable to give the participants a time limit on this of perhaps 40-60 seconds, as this makes their explanations more succinct.

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Prop Improv
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This is a….
For this example I have used the words I usually use which are tick and tock, however these words can be changed to anything. It ...
The Mysterious Object
Activity, go round in a circle and tell a story about the origins of the object and how it came here. Each person can add ...
Accept Change pass
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Zip Zap Boing
Group starts in circle, one of the players points to another player to one side of them and says ‘zip’. That player turns to the ...

Anyone Who

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:01:33 +0000

Learners start in a circle sat on chairs. Teacher is in the middle and explains the rules of the game. Learners think of four things (e.g. anyone who had breakfast, anyone who likes dancing, and anyone who has a watch on, anyone who likes a particular TV programme).
When the person in the middle calls out something you have on, have done, have seen etc, you must leave your chair and move to another one. NOTE (LEARNERS MUST NOT SIT ON A CHAIR ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CHAIR THEY ARE PRESENTLY SITTING ON.

The person left without a chair becomes the person in the middle (the teacher is participating) this person then calls out the next criteria for moving. The person in the middle must speak quickly and clearly.

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Freeze improv
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Person to Person
Learners move freely around the space. The teacher will call out ‘person to person’ on this command the learners must find a partner, the teacher ...
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Traffic Lights
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Anything but the item

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:46 +0000

Anything but the item, pupils take it in turn imagine another use for the prop except its actual purpose, by giving a demonstration of the object and clarifying its use, can be as whacky as they like. (Encourage dialogue when demonstrating the object)

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This is a….
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Prop Improv
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Basic Tableaux

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:21 +0000

Tableaux are essentially still images, they are an incredibly important tool used to structure and frame learners work, giving them a sense of space and dramatic action. They can be used in endless ways, but the principle is always

the same. Here are a few examples of how to use tableaux effectively Basic tableaux

Put into groups of 4/5 – mixing friendship groups
They are then given a situation and 2 minutes to create a Still Image of an event – ‘Wedding’, ‘Christening’, ‘Funeral’, ‘Surprise Party’ camp fire
Count down from 5, use count to assume the Still Image position for audience to observe, (or could do it as a competition, which group can do it faster). Exercise is really adaptable and can be cross referenced to other curricular lessons, base on particular themes, history, science etc. i.e. famous historical images such as ‘The Battle of Hastings’, or Rosa Parks.
Before each new still image, change the groups to ensure that the students work in different groups each time
Come back to a circle and ask what made various still images effective

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Split group into pairs, or can do exercise as a whole group. Example; Two people shake hands. Freeze the image. Discuss the meaning of the ...
Frozen Picture
Learners perform a selected scene and at a critical point in the action or at the height of a dramatic moment, they are asked to ...
Freeze improv
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Count to 20
Group stand or sit in a circle facing in, focusing at the centre, trying not to make eye contact. Group must count to 20, with ...
Mirrors
Divide group into pairs. Partners face one another about a meter apart. Learner A initiates movement, and Student B mirrors Student A’s actions. Stress co-operation, ...

Complete the Image

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:59:51 +0000

Split group into pairs, or can do exercise as a whole group.

Example; Two people shake hands. Freeze the image. Discuss the meaning of the image.

Then in pairs start with the frozen image of a handshake. B then steps out of the action and asks what is happening, B then returns and completes the image in a new way, showing a new meaning. This process is then repeated with A changing the image. Learners should think about body language and posture, what communication are the images giving off.

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Freeze improv
Group starts in a circle, or can work in pairs. A person then enters circle and freezes in a dramatic pose. Another person must then ...
One Two Three
Divide group into pairs, have them sit facing each other. Start counting from one to three between the pairs consecutively, over and over until they ...
Group Stories
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Count to 20

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:59:15 +0000

Group stand or sit in a circle facing in, focusing at the centre, trying not to make eye contact. Group must count to 20, with only one person speaking at a time. The order must be random – anyone can say the next number. If more than one person speaks at the same time then the count starts again at one, starting with a different person.

Variation

Make it more difficult by counting backwards or odds and evens.

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HA!
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Zip Zap Boing
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Death in a minute

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:58:50 +0000

One minute death. Split up into groups of 4/5, and devise a one minute play where some one dies at the end. It can be funny, sad or completely mad. Draw in group and discuss what they liked about the stories, and the ideas. Focus on what characteristics made them memorable.

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Embarrassing moment

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:58:05 +0000

Split the class into groups of 4/5. Each come up with an embarrassing moment and tell it too each other, after this ask the group to choose one of the stories, one that is easier to remember and that the whole group can easily retell, make this a quick decision or they will debate it forever.

They then each take it in turn to tell the rest of the class the story, whilst the rest of the class has to decide on whose the original story actually was. The object is to give the story detail, keep it short and have certain memorable characteristics.

End of session, call in group and discuss

which main points made the story stand out?
Why did we believe a certain person over someone else?
Was it easy to tell?
What did we like about the stories?

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