Today was CSzCUK's first paid school workshop.. we've done a few before, but never 'officially', and never with just two of us... Steven braved the 4 hour drive there and then another 4 hour drive back to come and do the workshop with me, I asked him why, he said because I asked, and he's enjoy it. So that was good enough for me... pleasant trip there and back and he even bought me some soup.
THE WORKSHOP! Yay... this is where I get to tell you all the cool stuff! I did my basic start with both groups, that involved a circle of What Are You Doing (which they knew) and PR Game (a big 'Yes And' game where everyone is making up an Ad Campaign and everyone has to agree with everyone else no matter what they suggest). As we only had an hour with each group we then did a Good Improvisor/Bad Improvisor scene (Steven played 'Bad Improvisor') where we do a scene and the kids have to tell us what that blatant gaping holes were. Both groups were good at that! One group even picked up on something I'd missed to do with mime. Plus I messed up the beginning of one scene, suggestion 'Zoo'... i grabbed Stevens hand and suggested we go and look at the lions... then he went off explaining that we werent at the zoo and he was going to shoot me... so I suddenly had a gun too, but then he denied my gun and said I had no arms 'Oh yeah, I forgot!'... funny, but blatantly bad - but yeah I messed up the beginning cos I didn't really do a very good mum impression and it looked like I was an old lady looking after her deranged Old Husband... ahh well... whatever...
The first group were good and the second group were OK (and double the size of the first!)... we did Forward Reverse, Superheros (it's one of Steven's fave games so I left him to explain and play that... characters: Captain Toast, Opera Lady, Diver Woman, Evil Girl ... Evil Girl just cracked me up, 'Yes I am Evil Girl - with the power of... evil'), Replay, New Choice (a classic), and a few others... with all the kids really threw themselves into it, literally some times.
There were some Jem kids in those groups, if I were closer to Oxford I would have had a team there I'm sure... I instantly bond with the 'different' kids too, one girl had purple hair, she was funky, although I called her Hitler Girl for the whole workshop as she'd brought Hitler to the PR Game... she did however point out that she wasn't a Nazi. There ws another funky guy who was the spitting image of a repeat audience member we have in Chorley, I was a bit freaked out at first... I thought it was him and he'd folllowed us! lol.
In just a 'scene' the suggestion was Umbilicle Cord (Hmmm) and this turned into a great scene about a mother not being able to let go, and the parents have been saving parts of the kids body... then all his unfinished meals, then the grandma turned up and told the 'dad' that she still had his liver. It was very funny... they found the game within the game, the 'body parts game'... the great thing about these groups was that I really think the did get a lot of what I was saying tothem.. and it made me all toasty.
Anyway I'm going to go to bed now....
THE WORKSHOP! Yay... this is where I get to tell you all the cool stuff! I did my basic start with both groups, that involved a circle of What Are You Doing (which they knew) and PR Game (a big 'Yes And' game where everyone is making up an Ad Campaign and everyone has to agree with everyone else no matter what they suggest). As we only had an hour with each group we then did a Good Improvisor/Bad Improvisor scene (Steven played 'Bad Improvisor') where we do a scene and the kids have to tell us what that blatant gaping holes were. Both groups were good at that! One group even picked up on something I'd missed to do with mime. Plus I messed up the beginning of one scene, suggestion 'Zoo'... i grabbed Stevens hand and suggested we go and look at the lions... then he went off explaining that we werent at the zoo and he was going to shoot me... so I suddenly had a gun too, but then he denied my gun and said I had no arms 'Oh yeah, I forgot!'... funny, but blatantly bad - but yeah I messed up the beginning cos I didn't really do a very good mum impression and it looked like I was an old lady looking after her deranged Old Husband... ahh well... whatever...
The first group were good and the second group were OK (and double the size of the first!)... we did Forward Reverse, Superheros (it's one of Steven's fave games so I left him to explain and play that... characters: Captain Toast, Opera Lady, Diver Woman, Evil Girl ... Evil Girl just cracked me up, 'Yes I am Evil Girl - with the power of... evil'), Replay, New Choice (a classic), and a few others... with all the kids really threw themselves into it, literally some times.
There were some Jem kids in those groups, if I were closer to Oxford I would have had a team there I'm sure... I instantly bond with the 'different' kids too, one girl had purple hair, she was funky, although I called her Hitler Girl for the whole workshop as she'd brought Hitler to the PR Game... she did however point out that she wasn't a Nazi. There ws another funky guy who was the spitting image of a repeat audience member we have in Chorley, I was a bit freaked out at first... I thought it was him and he'd folllowed us! lol.
In just a 'scene' the suggestion was Umbilicle Cord (Hmmm) and this turned into a great scene about a mother not being able to let go, and the parents have been saving parts of the kids body... then all his unfinished meals, then the grandma turned up and told the 'dad' that she still had his liver. It was very funny... they found the game within the game, the 'body parts game'... the great thing about these groups was that I really think the did get a lot of what I was saying tothem.. and it made me all toasty.
Anyway I'm going to go to bed now....
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