Additional Comments
This is a great combination for allowing players to experiment with a wide variety of characters and is great for enabling younger drama students to play status. The Spaghetti games gets the students acting ‘in their bodies’ . . . I had to constantly coach them (initially) to walk to the very centre of the circle and to allow the emotion to fully fill their bodies for the duration of the circle time . . . By the second round, they were very much improved and it proved to be a particularly useful (and fun) exercise. The theatre games that followed allowed the participants to inhabit character even further and to experiment with characters much older and younger than themselves which they universally revelled in. The students particularly loved the “Caught In The Act” performance piece . . . I insisted that they made the contrast between adult and child as distinct and clear as possible (by using different vocal / physical qualities) . . . Maybe I have a particularly badly behaved class but they all came up with great ideas and very strong work under the premise of being caught doing something they shouldn’t! . . . I hope this theatre game combination comes in handy!
Submitted By:
Aytan Hilton