Theatre Game- Clicker

Recently I was asked to help a friend create a theatre game for a lesson he was creating for his high school class. He was planning a lesson concerning genres of film and theatre.


This is what I came up with:

Clicker:

• Write genres on slips of paper that are folded and placed into a bucket.

• Write basic characters, ex. Rude Neighbor, Damsel in Distress, Villain, Dog Lover, Cat Hater, etc... on slips of paper and place them in a separate bucket.

• Decide how many students you want to have in each improv- have each student select a slip out of the character bucket.

• The students are now in a television show/ movie/ onstage... what have you...

• You, or a student of your choice, will have the magical clicker (remote) and genre bucket.

• The holder of the remote will select a paper from the genre bucket and announce it.

• The improv starts and the students have to work their characters into a scene that fits the selected genre. (You can also give a scenario to help this along, or even have a separate scenario bucket.)

• You can make all the selections or have students write submissions for the buckets- less work for you!

• The holder of the remote will either yell "pause!" or "click!"

• If "click!" is yelled out, the remote holder selects a new genre from the bucket and the actors must turn their scene into something that fits the new genre- keeping their characters and scenario.

• If "pause!" is yelled out, new actors select characters and take the stage- the remote holder can choose to replace one, a few, or all of the actors on the stage.