Em Workshop Activities

players build out a character's experience based on a single feeling

Players read lines of dialogue that audience members have written on slips of paper and must incorporate them into the scene.

Simple one phrase takeaways

Players call out the wrong name for objects

Players create a slide with their bodies and someone else explains what it is

One player makes a pose and the other person makes complementary pose

Establish pattern to pass in a circle. Create a category that each person has a contribution (ie. breakfast cereals). Add another category. 

Players walk in different ways as prompted by the instructor

Characters created by questions from other players
Each character created one at a time, then scenes are played

Group sits in circle, one chair in the middle for VOS

The whole group imagines it is walking around on a plate balancing on a single fulcrum. Each person is partnered with another and must keep the plate balanced.

Director calls out a scene location (ie. movie theater) and everyone assumes a non-human item in the scene (ie. wad of bubble gum on the floor)