Each working group is allowed four school chairs and no more. This is their car and a convincing short story must be made around it, inside it or outside it.
They will need to adopt credible characters who make the story work, and then collaborate with their peers to explore ideas, personality traits and ways of conveying meaning through a range of drama techniques.
It will encourage devising skills from a stimulus. It needs no lighting, props or costumes, though if any are around they might be useful. If there are, make sure you don't let them become a distraction.
For each group, place two chairs in front of two others to represent a car. One of the group is outside the car as a hitchhiker. The car stops to take them on board, but they eats messily, talks relentlessly, makes silly suggestions and farts.
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