Warm Up #1

Individually use your body to create a letter, go from A, B, C, etc (can be lower case, capital, different
lang, etc)
Next Part is creating a letter with another partner. Example: being the dot for the I, etc
Next part of exercise is creating words, cat, etc with more partners.
Next part has groups of 5 or more or where the group is divided into huge groups, then trying to form an
object.
***The main goal of these exercises seem to be to get your body and mindset into that of the group so
the trust is built in many ways

Warm Up #1
IN groups of two, label each other as A and B
A will grab Bs wrist and point them at things in the room, B must then name what they see (rotate
roles)
Next step do the same thing, but now say the exact opposite of what you see.
Discuss which is easier, why?
***The main goal of these exercises seem to be to get you out of your head and to imagine things can be
whatever rules you apply to your environment.

Exercise #1:
Im calling this game Shakespeare + Translator
The premise is like translator, two people are doing a scene, stopping for the interpretation. The
interpreters are interpreting the modern day conversation into Shakespeare for the Elizabethan
spectators.
*Pause between translations, for words that dont have a modern day translation, ie robot, laptop, use
similes metaphors to overly describe the object to someone in that time. IE robot was metal knight
without a soul*

Exercise#2
Shakespearean Insults/Compliments
Get in a line 3 people, and 1 person for the subject of the insult/compliments
Down the line, each person calls out an insult in Shakespearean prose to the person, nothing crazy
harsh, just to practice similes, and metaphors.
Reverse this and then give them a compliment
EXAMPLE: Thou hast the odor of a rank stable keeper than is unbearable to even the armies of Paris!
*This would make a great ender game! Helps to focus of using similes and metaphors a lot, using these
in a heightened state is sheer hilarity when comparing modern day themes and concepts!

General Notes:
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Shakespearean characters speak in a constant heightned emotion. Something mundane like

sipping a cup of coffee to a shakesperan character is an epic struggle, an indulgence that must
be known by poetry and prose! Everything is life and death!
Use a lot of similes and metaphors, it adds details (always good for a scene) and audiences
expect it from Shakespeare. Try to ref the gods, obscure things in nature, etc. READ SHAKESPERE
PICK UP THESE REFRENCES
Reference kingdoms and royalty titles. IE pizza hut would be You are from the kingdom of the
hut, ruled by the just lord Pepperoni?
The roles of fairys, witches, and mythical beings/gods are for foreshadowing and usually speak
in couplets (two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.)
o Example: "So, till the judgment that yourself arise,/You live in this, and dwell in lovers'
eyes."
Know the correct usage of verbs/nouns in Shakespeare.
Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine and Ye. And other verb/noun usage
o Art is a form of the word be and wherefore means what is the purpose of.

Word

Translation

When to use

Thou

You

When you is the subject of the sentence.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Thee

You

When you is the object of the sentence

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.

Thy

Your

Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with a
consonant/consonant sound (like the article, a).
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Thine

Your

Possessive form of you. Commonly used before a noun that begins with
vowel/vowel sound (like the article, an). Also used when indicating that
something is absolute and understood.
If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.

Ye

You (plural)

Plural form of you when addressing a group of people.