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Boom Chicka Boom
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This is a camp style game that is great for warming up the voice and developing accents.
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Ship Ahoy!
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A classic game - useful to develop listening skills and spatial awareness.
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Doctor's Surgery
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There's only spare seat in the waiting room and nobody wants you to sit in it! A great energy game promoting teamwork.
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Shazzam!
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A popular large group game where groups go into battle against one another.
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Master Master, Who Am I?
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A game to encourage accent, a silly voice or character to disguise your identity.
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HASH (Happy-Angry-Sad-Happy)
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Focus on the characterisation during quick changing emotions
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Pass The Emotion
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Pass emotions around the circle and see everyones smiley face!
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Sit, Lie, Stand
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A fun improvisation exercise, and possibly even more fun to watch!
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Jumping Jelly Beans!
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A firm favourite game that is fun and energetic.
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Pass The Word
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How many different meanings can a word have based on how it is said?
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Personal Advert
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Create a personal advert to highlight the best and worst of you or your characters personality.
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Traffic Lights
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An exercise to focus minds ready for a drama workshop.
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Park Bench
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A classic improvisation game based around the characters you might meet on a park bench.
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8 Count Shake
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An energetic physical warm-up that helps to generate energy.
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Ewy Chewy Toffee
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A good warm-up before any vocal work - exercise the jaw and facial muscles
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Word Ping Pong
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A great exercise to bring those involved into the Drama thought space.
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Nursery Rhyme Action
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Create an improved version of well-known nursery rhymes with actions.
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Secret Leader
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A game of teamwork and concentration where a detective must spot a secret leader also can help build dramatic tension.
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Change Places If ....
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Test the listening skills of your group whilst getting to know more about them.
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String Tension
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Bring a scenes energy up and down with a simple piece of string.
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Shape Shifter
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Quick thinking game requiring pairs to create shapes called out to them.
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Trust Circle
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An exercise that requires a great deal of trust between the members of the circle and the person inside the circle.
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Yes Let's
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A twist on 'follow the leader' where everyone has a chance to lead the actions of the group.
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Just A Minute
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The one minute challenge - could you tell when one minute has passed?
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Fruit Salad
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Warm-up with a fun game that is great as a starter but can be developed beyond 'fruit'.
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Count Up, Count Down
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A team game to encourage patience, turn taking and focus. A great challenge.
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Grandmother's Footsteps
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A firm favourite of younger players....creeping up on a suspicious Grandmother.
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1, 2, 3, Buzz!
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Count around a circle replacing certain numbers with the word "buzz".
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Fruit Bowl / Anyone Who?
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A classic game than can be adapted and used in a variety of ways.
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Name Gesture
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A common name game to encourage imagination, physical movement and mime when introducing yourself.
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Unfortunately / Fortunately
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Create an elaborate story, in pairs or as a group, with many twists and turns.
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Pass The Squeeze
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Work as a team to pass a squeeze from person to person around the circle.
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Mexican Clap
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Pass a clap around a circle in super-fast speed....whoosh!
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About Me
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Understand more about a group by discovering facts about them.
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Wink Murder
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An old favourite to out-fox the detective and claim as many victims as possible.
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Trust Walk
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Developing pair cohesion with a game where each person needs the support of the other.
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Hi John, You're Jolly
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A descriptive name game with a group reaction.
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2 Truths, 1 Lie
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Get to know the group by learning something about them and about how well they can lie!
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Sculptor & Clay
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Mould and create a statue out of the clay of another person
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Random Sound Story
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Use some random sounds as the basis for creating a story.
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Trust Falls
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Develop pair work with a trust exercise.
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Catch My Name
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Getting to know everyone in the group by passing a ball or similar soft object
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Trust Lift
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Lift a person above your heads with this trust exercise.
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Circle Story
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A group creating and telling a story together, one word or sentence at a time.
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Connect Me
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Connect to different words to spark discussions or to delve into characters.
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