Up: Acting exercises
Purpose: concentrate, listen, memorise.
Setup: Players stand in a circle.
First layer
Setup:
- The first player moves to another player, taps them on the shoulder, and takes their place.
- That second player now moves to another player (who hasn’t played yet), taps them on the shoulder, and takes their place.
- Repeat for each player, until everyone has swapped places exactly once.
After the setup, all players know who replaces them, and whom they replace.
The exercise: Repeat the setup but with exactly the same assignment of who takes whose place.
Second layer
Setup:
- The first player says “one.”
- The player (counter-)clockwise next to them says “two.”
- Repeat until the last player has said their number.
After this setup, everyone is assigned a unique number.
The exercise: Begin the first layer (swapping places). After ten seconds, begin the second-layer exercise: repeat the setup but with exactly the same assignment of numbers.
Third and further layers
Consecutive layer are similar to the second layer, but not with numbers:
- Name
- of the player who’s speaking
- of the player whose attention you want
- Animal noise
- A ball (soft, e.g. juggling ball)