Drama Games
Drama Games for breaking the ice, physical warm-ups, group dynamics and encouraging creativity. These activities are drawn from a wide range of sources, including traditional games, as well as exercises developed by directors, actors and teachers. View each category by clicking on the tabs below.
Animal Characters
How often do you meet someone who reminds you of an animal? In this game, animal traits are used as
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Count To 20
One of the simplest, yet most challenging drama games where the group tries to count to twenty.
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Daft Definitions
Put random words together to invent new concepts! Great storytelling warm-up.
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Drama Games for Language Teaching (teenage to adult)
14 easy to use drama games and activities suitable for a range of ages and language levels.
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Drama Games for Story Books
Two activities for exploring story books through drama
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Family Portraits – Online/Socially Distanced
Groups have just a few seconds to make comical family tableaux.
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Fruit Salad
A game of quick reactions and verbal dexterity
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Grandma’s Footsteps
Perfect game for exploring dramatic tension.
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Groovy Image Factory
Quickly generate repeating actions and sounds or words
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Guess The Pet
A variation on the Mirror Game for younger students
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Guess Who I Am (inc Online Version)
A fun way of creating characters from any picture.
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Imaginarium
An exciting and completely unpredictable way to quickly develop a scene
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Night Watchman
The museum is closed for the night. The watchman is making his rounds. But something strange is going on...
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Non-Verbal Communication
Discussion and activities exploring the power of non-verbal communication
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Open and Close
An effective way of performing a sequence of freeze frames.
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Pecking Order
Can you work out where you stand in the pecking order?
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Poetry in Motion
Poetry can be explored and presented effectively through drama and movement
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Random Sound Stories
A story is told by the group or in pairs, with each person adding one word at a time.
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Sculptor and Statue
In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other and let others
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Shoe Shuffle
Develop imagination and mime skills using everyday objects
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Siren (Voice Warm-Up)
An effective and easy humming warm up for exploring and extending the vocal range.
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Soundscapes
The group is conducted to create a sound picture or “soundscape” using their voices and bodies.
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Sources of Light
Create objects that make or reflect light
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Status Pictures
In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other and let others
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Story Orchestra
The group tells a story, with a conductor guiding the narrative
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Ten Second Objects (inc Online Version)
Small groups make the shape of an object using their bodies - in only ten seconds!
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Three Changes
An observation and getting to know you game - with online version
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Three Word Sentences
Sometimes three words are just enough.
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Two Truths And A Lie
Play online or live - tell your partner three things about yourself – two of which are true and one
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Where Do You Stand? (inc Online Version)
A fast and effective way of discovering everybody’s opinions about a subject - online or offline.
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