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One Day in Drama10
The kids enter room, and they leave all stuff in right hand
corner closest to door.
At 9:00am sharp, they “circle up” and “check in”.
- Check in – you and all students silently make eye
contact with one another. Do not move on until you sense all have made eye
contact. If you have seen all eyes you’re likely ready to go.
- Shake hands – “Go away”, “come back”, “make
pancakes”, “hallelujah”, “Peter Pan”
- Shake feet – Right foot, left foot, both feet
- Stretch and yawn – Whatever that means to you
- Face Massage – Take your time with this, gently
warm up face
- Neck rolls – forward, centre, back, centre,
right, centre, left, centre gentle circles
- Reach for the sky – hold up on toes, reaching for
ceiling tiles, let go, up again...
- Collapse – bend from waist like a puppet. Up on
20 one vertebrae at a time
- Breathe into spare tire – students breathe into
stomachs, eight times
Body and Breath warm and ready – now for your brains!!!
Stay in standing circle for this stuff.
- Slap pass – each in turn claps, steps forward on one
foot, and points to another
- Slap pass names – same deal adding names or recipients
- Whoosh! – “whoosh”, “whoa”, “zap”, “groovalicious”,
“freak out”, "opera"
- “This is a stick” – A: This is a stick; B: A what?; A: A
stick; B: Oh, a stick! Etc.
- Liars Tag – in seated circle one at a time enter center
and performs an action. Next in line asks what they are doing and actor makes
up something other than the activity he/she is doing. The lie becomes the
next action, and the lying continues around the circle.
Body, Breath, Brains ready to rumble! Big Game for the
day: The Expert Interview
For this game, students need to be in a single file
semi-circle facing the stage. Moving along the circle [or volunteers] three
students come to the stage and decide who will be Interviewer, Expert, and
Observer. Then, each plays their role in a talk show format.
- Interviewer: He asks audience for a specific
activity {in winter, at the beach}
He then asks the audience for
an object {found in the garage, in a store…}
He must now choose and fuse the
activity and object into an area of expertise and bring on his special guest.
He is overly enthusiastic about this guest. Cannot believe his lucky stars to
have the foremost authority on “garden-hose skiing” on his show. The objective
of the interviewer is to make his guest look great – rule number 3 of the three
rules of improv.
- Expert: She discovers her area of expertise
as she is coming up
Adhering to the Yes! And… rule,
she becomes the authority on this area of expertise. She knows all there is to
know and answers all questions without hesitation.
- Observer: She watches for specific examples of
improv rule demonstation.
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