This week during the theatre class we continued to play a variety of theatre games. To warm-up, we played simpler games like “stop-go jump” which was really just to get us comfortable and woken up again. Some games were more focused on active listening/watching such as “Quick-change” where one person would leave the circle, change 3 things about their appearance and then come back and have the group try to guess the differences. The “Twin interview” also focused a lot on active listening and watching but it additionally had elements of more talking and acting. We played conductor and Television channels, which are similar in structure. In a conductor, 5 people would line up and when pointed to by a ‘conductor’ they would say one sentence to create a story. This game was really interesting for me because the stories would get pulled in different directions by each persons’ sentence and then the group would have to adapt and build off of it. The Television channel game was less of a team effort, but still entertaining. One person would point to one of the 3 people. Of those three people, each of them had to act as if they were a part of a certain television channel. (eg. sports channel, news channel, soap opera etc.) Multiple games were based on expressing emotion, such as “slow-motion emotion” and “Emotion party” which we played again this week. But my favorite “games” that we played this week were the “Scene from a photo” and “Scene from real life” activities. In the scene from a photo activity, I was an actor. My director made some interesting choices based upon the image of a snowy scene that we were given. We ended up going with some Christmas themed scene which was very entertaining. The parameters we were given made improvising a scene very, interesting you could say. My director definitely had a clear vision of the scene so it was interesting to just follow along with what she wanted us to do. In the other activity, a scene from real life, I got to be the director. It was interesting to see how the actors improvised a scene based off of the story that I told. It was very entertaining to watch how they interpreted the characters, especially because some of the actors knew the characters in the story.
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