DRAMA GAMES
These ice-breakers, warm-ups, group dynamics and improvisation activities can be used with most age-groups. The drama games can all be found in the books by David Farmer. View each category by selecting from the drop-down menu – or use the SEARCH BOX above.
Adverb Game
Guess the emotion/action and adverb in this hilarious mime guessing game
Count To 20
A classic concentration and focus exercise, where the group tries to count to twenty.
Daft Definitions
Think up random words to invent impossible objects! Great storytelling warm-up.
Drama Games for Story Books
Two amazing drama activities for bringing story books to life through drama!
Family Portraits
Groups make family portraits by striking funny poses such as aliens, rockstars or dinosaurs.
Fruit Salad
A fun game encouraging fast reactions and verbal dexterity by saying the names of fruits.
Grandma’s Footsteps
This classic playground game is perfect for exploring dramatic tension. Plenty of fun, surprise and cheating!
Guess Who I Am
A fun way of creating characters from any picture.
Guided Tour
Take your blindfolded partner on an imaginary and sensory journey.
Imaginarium
An exciting and completely unpredictable way to use body shapes to brainstorm ideas.
Night Watchman
The museum is closed for the night. The watchman is making his rounds. But something strange is going on...
One Word At A Time
A story is told by the group or in pairs, with each person adding one word at a time.
Open and Close
A brilliant method of performing a series of freeze-frames to tell a story in a drama lesson.
Pecking Order
Can you work out where you stand in the pecking order?
Poetry in Motion
Groups explore short or long poems through drama and movement.
Random Sound Stories
Small groups tell or perform a story which incorporates completely random sounds.
Sculptor and Statue
Students work in pairs and one mould the other's body into a character, shape or emotion.
Shoe Shuffle
Develop imagination and mime skills using everyday objects.
Soundscapes
The group is conducted to create a sound picture or “soundscape” using their voices and bodies.
Status Pictures
In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other.
Story Orchestra
Conduct a story like a piece of music, in this fun drama game!
Ten Second Objects
Drama game - groups make the shape of an object using their bodies - in only 10 seconds!
There Is Only One Liar
A psychological but fun group dynamics game from Augusto Boal. Perfect for fans of The Traitors!
Three Changes
An observation and getting to know you game.
Three Word Sentences
Players improvise a scene and they always speak in three-word sentences.
Two Truths And A Lie
Tell your partner three things about yourself – two of which are true and one of which is a lie!
What Are You Doing?
Quick thinking and action is essential in this funny mime and spoken language drama game.
