January 12, 2015 - January 16, 2015 Weekly Agenda for Intermediate

Monday, January 12th: 

Enroll students

Pass out class syllabus

Improv games!

Tuesday,  January 13th: 

Theatre games and improvs!

Wednesday, January 14th:

Theatre games and improvs!

The Entrance Game

Thursday, January 15th: 

Theatre games: 

"Pass the Clap"

Rumor Has It: 

The game begins with one actor saying  to another "rumor has it" and  makes up a rumor. The other actor takes the rumor and adds to it. The rumor continues around the circle.

Oil Spill: 

The actors clap as they say zoom, until someone says "brake" or makes a braking sound, then the clap goes in a different direction. When someone says 'oil spill" everyone runs and changes places in the circle.

Translations: 

A situation is given and actors are assigned roles and narrators are assigned to the actors who act out the things the narrators are saying.

Gibberish: 

Non-English speaking alien speaks and narrator translates. 

The Entrance Game: 

A woman goes to a restaurant and sees her boyfriend with another woman. 

Friday, January 16th: 

Theatre games: 

"This is a Duck" 

This teaches timing, concentration and listening. 

A student In a circle passes an object to the person to her left,  and says, "This is a duck." The second student asks, "A what?" The first student replies, "A duck!" The second student asks again, "A what?" First student, "A duck!" The second student replies with,  "Oh, a duck!"  And then the second student turns to the next student to her left and repeats it until it goes around the circle.

Then another one syllable object is added and goes around the circle along with the original object. More objects are added and go around with the other objects.

"Yes, May I?"

This teaches concentration, focus, and cooperation. 

Students stand in a circle. A student makes eye contact with another student on the opposite side of the circle and asks, "May I?" The second student replies, "Yes!" And then immediately turns to another student and asks, "May I?" The second student does not move until the third student says, "Yes!" When she receives permission she moves to the third person's position. The second student must leave before the first person arrives to take her place. 

To make it more difficult, the students do not say, "May I?' but make the request nonverbally, with eye contact and pointing only. If the student moves without getting permission first, or is still standing in her position when another student arrives to take her place, then the student must go into the "moshpit of shame"! 

Living Statues

"Telling a Story by Tableaux" 

This teaches concentration, creativity, cooperation, 

Black out - audience's eyes closed

Lights up - audience's eyes open

Telling a story by tableaux

The students break into groups of three to create a story by using three connected tableaux. Each tableau, or frozen scene, should tell a story or a situation. All three actors do not have to be in every "scene" or tableau.  Each tableau or scene should be connected to the previous tableau/scene and the third and final tableau/scene should be the climax or brings the story to a close. The final tableau/scene can be funny, ironic or sad. 

Actors create a story with 3 tableaux:

One actor says, "Blackout!" and the audience closes eyes

The actors assume the first tableau

The actor says,"Lights up!"

Audience sees the first tableau

The actor says, "Blackout!" and the audience closes eyes

The actors assume the second tableau

The Actor says, "Lights up!" and the audience opens eyes.

Repeat