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Make Short Monologues, Improvise and Make a New Playwright
Summertime's here and you are committed to a new group of kids for summer fun. Perhaps it's a camp. Could be a Sunday Institution summertime session. A summertime institution, even. You know that there will be a lull in their everyday routine that will have to be loaded and kids can obtain very agitated when they are tired. You require a plan.
If it is a big group, split them into smaller groups. Allow them choose group members. For every group, you will require a playwright, a director and a cast of no more than three. First you will tell them that they must provide you recommendations for a setting for the play they are about to improvise. Make it in a little setup, nothing big, however some setting restricted by a little area. No football areas unless it is at the coach's bench. Any little space will do, any park bench will do it ... perhaps a campfire on a deserted island. They will provide recommendations and you will choose the very best or most interesting and appealing setup. The person that suggested the chosen setup will be designated playwright. You choose the campfire on a deserted island. Now ... the playwright gets to choose three characters for this play. A play requires action from the start so you tell the playwright that one person must be on stage and the others might enter "at increase." He will have to know his characters prior to we begin, so the playwright tells the cast what sort of characters he wants for the play. Allow's state we are on a deserted island and the three characters have been shipwrecked. Will he want two guys and a lady, or two ladies and a guy? He decides. He is the playwright and he is beginning to feel the wheels turning for disputes that might occur. Without dispute, he has no play.
Now each chosen character will "monologue" himself. He-- or she-- might state "I am Johnny and I have to return home soon. Not soon. Today!" He is very agitated and criticizes one more character for this disaster. See there? We are already in dispute and the others, as they make themselves, will expose their fictitious inner issues and character. This is the stuff your play is made from. And this is the inner reflection short monologues are made from. Don't forget to designate a light person so he can turn illuminations on and off as the director, calls, AT INCREASE ... You will have as much fun as the kids and they will be pleading for even more. And I'll bet they will hold onto that seed of the joy, the laughter and thrills of being a playwright, seeing their work performed onstage.