French Telephone

Allocate each person in a circle to look at, so that everyone is looking at someone and everybody is being looked at by someone.
Instruct each person to really observe the person they are looking at and to imitate any movements they do.
Keep encouraging the group to stand still.
You will find that in the circle there is continual movement and it is almost impossible for it to be completely still for any period of time
Tell the circle to exaggerate any movements they see and the circle will quickly become very animated.

Creating images out of words

In a circle facing out, someone shouts out a theme/word i.e. Love
After a count of 3 turn and create an image.
Add a noise/word/sentence/Gesture to the shape
Go to people similar to your shape/sound and interact/improvise with them.
An external leader can observe and put in more people/groups to create an interesting impro/story.
This could be developed into a scene.

Progression
The group can be encouraged to call out 2 words ( eg. noun and an adjective) and then form a shape from that.
You can get people to perform the shapes at different levels of intensity. So a caller would say Jealous Love Level 8 (Highest)

Find the sound and feel the hand.

Stand in a circle and number the group 1 and 2
1's stand opposite 2 (On their right) and say a noise/rhythmical sound that repeats
The stand opposite the person on your left and do the same.
Each person should now have their own sound and be familiar with the sound of the person on their left and right.
All hold hands in the circle and practise your sound. While you do this examine the hands of the people each side of you.
Everyone is to close their eyes and walk slowly around the room making their noise.
The aim is to find the sounds of the people from each side of you in the circle and get back into the circle as a whole group
You can feel peoples hands to help you with identifying if the sound is not conclusive for you.

Body Sculpture - Complete the image

In pairs shake hands
One pull away and interact in a different way
Introduce making a noise with new interaction.
Then a word
Then a sentence
Introduce running a scene and interaction with each other.

Nb Boal teaches we are mechanical beings, our bodies influenced by our emotions. This type of activity aims to de-mechanise us from negative influences.

Rythym Factory

Stand in a circle
Someone goes into the middle and intoduces a sound and movement.
Everyone does it and moves around the room doing it.
On the command "change" create a new sound and movement where ever you are.
On the command "Meet" pair up and do you new sound and movement with someone else.
On command "return" come back into a circle and try to do all the same noise and movement but without orchestrating or forcing it to happen.

Stuck in the Mud

Somebody is it and their job is to tag everybody in the room, which immediately freezes them.
Once someone is tagged they must stand still with their legs a stride.
If someone else is able to crawl through their legs then they are free again.
Once the person on it has managed to freeze everybody then the game is over.

Progressions
To make it a bit harder for the runners you can use two or even three taggers.
You can also make the space smaller to play their game.
If you start with more people on it then you can limit them by making them crawl like crabs

Benefit
This is a great game for getting a group to work together as a team unknowingly and would work as a great warm up if the group had been experiencing division of some kind