List of Games #2 with focus on establishment of places and actions

Length: 2 hours

Done on 19.05.2018

• The mouse in the circle: Everyone is standing in a circle. An imaginary mouse is running under the feets of the people. Each person first lift the left feet and then right one. If someone steps two time with the same feet, he changes directions. The people try the move the feets faster. The mouse can become a baby and people has to lift the feets higher
• Learning Names: All the people are standing in a circle. Each one say his name followed by a simple gesture like moving one arm, a leg or jumping. Then everyone must say the name and do the gesture of the person on the right. Then everyone must say the name of the person on the right of the right person. Then the moderator says this name and repeats his gesture, then he choose a person, says his name and repeats the gesture. The group continues doing this randomly. At the end, no name is said, but people use the gestures to call each other.
• Cross_Circle with Names, then eye contact
• Walking Around with a speed scale: Everyone imagines a speed scale from 1 to 10. Running is not allowed. Only walking. The moderator goes first from 1 to 10, and then ask the group randomly for a speed like 2, 8, 5, 6, 10 and 3. The speed 5 must be the normal walking pace. It is good to put some music during the game.
• Walking around with water: Everyone walks and imagines waking with one meter snow, then the snow smelts down, then it is ice and slippery, then there is water in the ground, the water goes up to the knees, then to the waist (Gurtel-linie), then to the elbows, then to the shoulders, then to the neck and you have to swim. At the end the water gets colder or warmer.
• Feuer - Wasser - Wind

• Picking gifts It can also be done in pairs.

• Increase and Decrease in pairs and then in a circle

• CROW in two rows of players with places and objects or relationships: It an be trained with two rows of players. The first player has to name a traits (Character) and the second one has to accept the traits, ideally related to behaviour. The second player starts then using an object. Afterwards he continues using the object and having the traits and offers a second traits to the other player who has to start using an object. It can be done with professions and objects, places and traits, activity and places, relationships and traits and every two aspects of CROW. When they finish they change rows

• Feeling your shoes covering your feets: All the players walk randomly around the room. Then they walk and feel your foots inside their shoes, then they feel their shoes covering your foots, their body inside their clothes, their clothes outside their body. Now they are walking through a substance, it keeps their body together, now it is liquid and the bodies are solid. Then the other way round. Now each player stops and starts feeling the substance around his body again. After a while they start making a tunnel into the substance around. Then they step into the tunnel, turn around and see the space left where their bodies were. Then they start building something with the substance. They take into account the texture, the weight and the space. Finally they you get in triads and build something with the other players. At the end everyone comments on the experience.

• Story Solo: Storystelling with thrown words
• Dr. Know-It-All with 3 players and a host

• 3 or 6 Directors: One person stands on stage and three directors take turns to say what comes next. When the player does it, he has “What I do next?”. It is even better with two players and six directors
• Stage Directions: A book with a stage play is needed or the public writes actions in post-its
• Complementing movements with one sentence: Two players are on stage. One takes a strage position where he uses his whole body. The second player then complements this position with his body without touching the first player. Then the first player says one sentence and the second player answers with another sentence. Afterwards the sequence starts again with the first player choosing another position. The moderator may give a location where the scenes are played.
• Deaf Replay
  • The third group goes outside and can't listen or see the first one
  • The first group plays a scene. They can speak.
  • The third group comes in.
  • The second group replays the scene without speaking
  • Now the third group replays the scene speaking imaging what it is about. The public muss tell them about the differences with the first group
• Chain Murder Death Profession, Weapon and Murder in fantasy language

Raum einrichten (Auftritt) in German

• Doors
• Six players are in the same place (like a beach) and each of them gets on stage and start doing something taking the details into account
• Painting the scene: Six players enter one after the other into the same place (an artist studio). First the describe different corners of that place. At the end they play taking all previous objects into account
• Action Freeze: One player does a simple action with all the details. After one minute, he must say one sentence and freeze. A new player replaces him/her and start a new action from the last position. When one minute is over, he can say one sentence and the games continues. This trains using body language to describe places
• Different places: Two players receive two different places from the public. They don't know the place of the other player. They have to guess the other place and play a scene together
• Location
• Describe a room with objects: A place for the scene is choosen. One after the other people go to the scene and add objects. The old objects are taken into account by the new players
• Real Estate Broker

• Boom Chicago
• Three Line Environment or 3 lines
• Coming Home

• Lugares

• Sit, stand up and lay down
• Bong Bong Bong with a common expression
• Storystelling with sounds
• Backwards Interview
• Double endowment: with two actions in one place

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