Drama Game: Guess who I am

Age: 5+

Players: Whole group, small groups, pairs

Time: 10-20 minutes

Skills: Improvisation, role play, speaking and listening

Last issue we looked at questioning characters inside a freeze frame or still image. Another fun way to improvise characters is by using pictures, photographs or works of art as a prompt by displaying this on a smart board or poster. Choose a picture with plenty of activity in it and at least as many characters as there are students. You can use illustrations from story books and textbooks, historical photos, images from graphic novels, movie stills or works of art.

Start by demonstrating to the class. Secretly choose a character from the picture; speak as though you are that character and see if they can guess who you are. Here's an example of a character playing ‘hide and seek’ in the painting Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.