Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Bus Stop

You can play this as a whole class, very popular game.

Amount of people: 3-4 at the bus stop, the rest of class is the audience.
Difficulty: Easy

The objective of the game is to improvise a role and play that role out in a makeshift bus stop. The bus stop is made up of three chairs, and as the game starts all three are filled. Each person must act as if they are at the bus stop, and each one acts as if they have a quirk, whether it be physical, psychological, or otherwise.

The quirk could be blindness or hysteria, or it could be more concrete, such as the person acting as if he is hiding a bomb or have a suitcase full of money. He must interact with each other person and improvise.

After awhile (this can be gauged by an observer or just determined by the person), the person on the last seat leaves, the next person moves up, and a new person enters.

This repeats until there are no more people left or until everyone gets sufficiently bored.

variation- they don't have to have a quark and can act out different roles and the audience has to guess.

**Sometimes when the class is younger it is helpful to have a list of roles for them to act out. When a student is chosen to go up to the bus stop whisper the role they are playing in their ear.

List of roles:
Santa Claus
Gardener
An American Idol contestant (who didn't win)
Shoe salesman
Madonna
Fashion Diva
Lassie
The old woman in the shoe
Sponge bob square pants
Queen Elizabeth
Robot
Manicurist
ET
Mary had a little lamb
The indestructible Cheerleader from Heroes
Ariel the little mermaid
a transformer
a computer geek
Jeanie from I dream of Jeanie
a talk show host
a psychologist
the tooth fairy
easter bunny

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