Description
What’s behind the door?
Are you bad at improvisation or lack spontaneously in your acting this game can help you out. It also enables actors to become ‘more in tune’ with each other and encourages them in thinking on the same wavelength. Along with trust exercises this game is really useful if you have two actors who seem not to ‘click on stage’ or seem not to be stagnant in their performance together.
This game involves just two actors however it can be adapted for more.
To have an audience wacthing it also helps.
Starting from the a door, set up two rows of chairs facing each other to form and aisle with of a width of about 2-3 metres. (If you have an audience (other actors) sit them in the chairs) at the end of the isle should be a chair facing the door.
Select two actors. One must sit in the chair at the end of the aisle (A), the other on the other side of the door (B).
What will happen next is the actor outside the door (B) must decide what is behind it. (B) Will then enter the room and try and convince (A) in the chair that they must go through the door. (B) may do what ever he / she wishes to convince (A) to go through the door- with out stating what it is-assuming (A) already knows!, Also (A) is not restricted to sitting in the chair and may walk around in the space provided. When (A) thinks they have worked out what is behind the door they must go with (B) through it. Both actors then enter the room again and (A) must say what they thought was behind the door and (B) must say what it was. Hopefully the answer will be the same!
If you are confused here is a crude example of what may happen, (B) walks through the Door (A) is in the chair
(B) Oh my god you do not want to go in there!
(A) Why not?
(B) Why not? Hey mate it was a good night last night!
(A) Was it I’m not sure I think I could have been better?
(B) I know you don’t like Indian but my madras was perfect, I’m feeling I now though!
(A) So I don’t want to in there then?
(B) Well when you gotta go you gotta go!
(A) It’s true
Then walks in through the door with (B) and of course it was a toilet cubicle! Sorry about the example but it was the best I could think of at this moment!?
Obviously this is a really short example but it can be more complex such as behind the door is a gateway into an enchanted forest (lion the witch and the wardrobe!) or a church maybe – (B) is convincing (A) that it’s going to be ok, and they’re making the right choice…a wedding
I know from experience that people love this game and I wish you all the best with it, and I am once again sorry for the bad examples : (
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