Top theatre games

Hi there.

This is Courtney and I'm from Rainbow Day Camp, but

I'm here today, sharing with you my top theater games.

So before it gets started, you want to know why

you're playing the game.

What's the point of it?

Are you trying to get your campers to focus?

Are you trying to get your campers to build energy

or possibly waste some of that crazy energy?

Is it an icebreaker game?

Are you just working on some teamwork?

You want them to get to know each other?

Is it a little bit more specific?

Is it a scene work game?

Is it a character driven game where they to create

and develop characters?

Is it an improv game?

And if it's an improv game, you want to make

sure you know how well the campers sort of know

each other.

You want to know their level of improv, and you

kind of want to know how old they are before

you start throwing some improv games at them.

So one of my first games, it's called Sound and

Action. It's a bit of a thinking on your feet

game. It's an ice breaker.

You're working as a team but it's really just getting

silly and getting out there.

So in a really large circle, one camper is going

to go up to another Campo, not touching it for

us. And they do a sound and inaction.

Yo Wow!

Other camper has to copy it yellow.

Wow! Then that new camper runs up to a brand

new camper and gives them a brand new action and

sound. I try really hard not to get them to

use real words, but it's great because they're learning to

give and take, and they just build that energy and

build that silliness.

The second game is called Tableau Wars, so I break

them into groups of four or five.

Campers could be more, and they're going to create a

tableau for me.

But I'm not going to give them very much time

to do it.

So they're working on characters.

They're working on focus.

They're working together as a team, and they're kind of

improv working on their feet, so I might yell something

else. Like, I want to see a picture of Frankenstein

going to the dentist and within 10 seconds they need

to create that tableau and then they freeze and I'm

looking for things like facial expressions levels.

How well they can focus and freeze.

Are they giving me a focus that I know what

I'm looking at and how well they're working together?

It's a great fun game to play.

Third One is yes, let's So it's an introduction to

improv and saying yes and working always together and giving

that positivity.

So they're walking around the space and one camper.

I don't decide to who they decide yells, Hey, everybody,

let's pretend we're fishing and everyone goes Yes, let's pretend

we're fishing so they start mining that action.

Then someone else says, Hey, everybody, let's pretend we're chickens

and they all go, Yeah, let's pretend we're chickens and

they keep mining that new action and you keep going

and going and going until almost everyone's had to turn

to yellowed a Hey, everybody.

The next game is making a machine, so it's an

oldie but a goodie, and you can play with small

groups or large groups and whatever you want.

So I start with one camper, making an action in

the sound people, people, people, something that they can keep

going for a little while and then another keeper.

Ads add action town Action town in a non Kobe

dear, I have them actually touching and creating this amazing

machine. And then when I have enough campers, I'm gonna

make the machine go faster.

Then I'm gonna make the machine go slower.

Then I'm gonna freeze the machine and ask it questions

like, What does it do?

What's its name?

How much money does it cost?

And you can keep on creating brandish machines and keep

on going.

The next game is simple seen style, or I call

it making soup.

So I start off with a very simple seen mine

is about making soup.

Hence the name.

I need three actors and I teach them this very

simple seat.

So it goes like this.

One character is making soup.

And another character, Watson says, Hello.

Hello. What are you doing?

I'm making soup.

What kind of soup is it today?

Chicken noodle soup.

Or can I try?

Some? Sure gives the soup, she tries it, and diet

is a big dramatic death.

Where the name comes, the doctor checks them in a

really funny way and says she's dead.

So the scene is very simple It's a beginning of

improv, but we're giving them the words we're giving them

the direction we're giving them something so they don't feel

so thrown on the spot.

But the fun part about this game is now you're

going to change that style.

They do the exact same scenes, the same concept, similar

words. But now I want to see the scene like

robots or see it like cowboys or see it like

ballerinas. And every time they have to do the scene

differently, but almost the same, it's really fun.

The next one is called back to neutral, so I

tell my actors this my state of neutral, a blank

canvas. This one's more about focus and character work and

really focusing on what they're doing.

So they walk around the space and neutral color, and

I want to see everyone who are being really silly,

maybe a super super silly back to neutral.

Now I want to see how you walk.

When you're very, very late.

They're running late and back to neutral this'll.

When you can play with characters, you could play with

emotions. You play with many different things, and you can

keep it going for quite a while.

The last one How I end every rehearsal and camp

day is my shakedown.

They go from quiet toe loud and build and shake

and shake and shake and shake and shake until 50543215

you want you want to do it one.

And on the end of the day.

Thank you so much for joining me today, and I

hope you had some fun for my quick theater games

by.

Top theatre games

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