This week we continued to play theatre games, but we started to transition to games that involved more speaking and bold decisions. My favorite game that we played this week was the "emotion party" game. In this game, the host would start by setting up the party while acting with a specific mood. Then when each guest came in the host, and any other guests who had arrived would switch their emotion to match the one of the person entering. I enjoyed this game because it allowed me to make choices which would change the course of the scene. It also allowed me to follow the flow of other people's decisions. Playing this game showed me how to build off of other people's emotions and actions as a way to extend the scene. Besides the game being an eye-opening experience, it was also just an enjoyable game. It let me feel like I was playing, which always seems like a good thing to me, and it was also one of the most entertaining of the games to watch. Another one of the games we played was a superhero game. This game was similar to the last game I mentioned in that each person enters one by one. The first person 'on-stage' is given a superhero name and some problem that they need to solve. When each person comes, the person who entered before them has to provide them with a superhero name and then they have to try to help solve the problem. In the end, each person has to come up with some specific reason why they need to leave. This game was especially fun for me because as each person entered, they would take the scene and move it in some other direction. This exercise was good for me because it helped me let go and get more comfortable with adapting to the scene and making changes on the spot.
After this week, I realize that I need to work on not breaking. I have a serious problem where I'll start laughing at everything, it may have been just an off week, but I want to stay aware of it as we move on. I think I might be laughing as a way to 'protect myself' because I don't want to commit to the scene, but I need to remind myself that this is a safe environment and the whole purpose of these games is to commit to the scenes. I think I'll also enjoy the activities a lot more if I can feel able to completely immerse myself in some ridiculous character or story for just a short while.
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