Character

Award ceremony

A game for 3 players and more. A player goes on stage and calls a player B to the stage. For player B he defines a character, a quirk/ti...

Betty Plum

Also known as Hologram. A group of players collectively build a fictional person by contributing characteristics one at a time. If a sugg...

Character exercise (character switch)

All go through the room, each with a certain character. Whenever you meet, you speak two sentences together, and the character is slowly ...

Character Walk

Everyone walks through the room embodying a specific character. When two players meet, they exchange a sentence or two in character. Var...

Cut and paste

The players play a normal scene, based on the suggestion of the audience. At any time, the moderator can call "Cut" to remove ("cut out")...

Develop a Person

Players walk through the room. When the facilitator says 'stop', everyone freezes. The facilitator asks individual players: 'Who are you?...

Developing a Character

Players walk through the room and imagine a person — their age, profession, worries, habits. They begin moving as that person would. The...

Different Reaction

An exercise to practice strong reactions and clear characters. A two-person scene is played. Player A initiates with a verbal offer. Pla...

Emotional Chair

A solo exercise. The player sits on a chair and receives a simple prompt (e.g. 'shoes'). Their task is to continuously switch emotions — ...

Fast Food Laban

An exercise for developing characters based on movement types, inspired by Rudolf von Laban's movement studies. Players explore combinat...

Fast Food Stanislavski

Two players play a scene with a given title or location. Each player receives a secret subtext for their character — their hidden motivat...

Hologram

Players stand in a circle. Together they build a plausible picture of a fictional person by contributing traits one at a time: name, age,...

King

One player is King, sitting on a throne. The King commands what emotions the other players must display. Players step forward one at a ti...

Leading Body Part

Players walk through the room. The facilitator names a body part — pelvis, left shoulder, forehead, right knee, belly. Players let that b...

Silent post

The gamemaster and two players are in the room Player A gets now a guideline and has to improvise a monologue straight away. Player B wa...

Statue Scene Start

A preparatory exercise for freeze tag. Players form pairs. One sculpts the other into a random statue. The statue then starts a scene fro...

Telephone Monologue

The facilitator and 2 players stay in the room. Player A receives a prompt and delivers a monologue in a developed character. Player B wa...

The Holy Grail

All players stand in a wide circle. One person enters the center with a specific character (voice, accent, posture) and approaches someon...

The Inner Animal

The facilitator writes different animal species on slips of paper. Players draw one secretly. Their task is to imagine the essence of thi...

Zoom and Emotion

Player A acts on stage while Player B sits at the side. After a prompt, A narrates a typical daily routine (e.g. morning after waking up)...