Theatre Education: A Resource of Practical and Project-Based Warm-ups/Theatre Games for K-12

Audience Pantomime

Where we learned it: Middle school drama class
Ages: 4th grade and up
Materials: Note cards with events written on them (e.g., baseball game, horror movie, ballet, rock concert, etc.)

Process:

1. Discuss how people behave differently when they go to different events.  Demonstrate the concept by asking the students to pantomime how they would act if they went to see a play.  Then have them pantomime how they would act while at an ice hockey game.
2. Ask for four volunteers and show them a card.  The object is for them to pantomime the event with enough specificity that the rest of the class can guess where they are.
3. Once they guess, ask for another four volunteers and hand them a new card.

4. Repeat the process until everyone has had a chance to participate.