Drama Game: Mime room

Age: 7 to adult

Players: Whole class or small groups

Time: 10–25 minutes

Skills: Physical Theatre, Mime

One by one, participants create a room using mime

One person at a time enters a mimed room and carries out an activity using an imaginary object, then exits. After a few people have entered and exited, there will be several ‘objects’ in the room. The challenge is for each player to remember where other people's mimed objects are and to use them again.

Begin by setting a theme – for example an office. Open an imaginary door and step into ‘the office’. Now you need to use an object – so you could open an imaginary filing cabinet, take out a file and read it before replacing it. Leave the room by the same door or through a new one. Any doors created in this way should remain where they are!