{"id":26898,"date":"2022-01-07T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=26898"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:23:47","slug":"animal-circle","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/resource\/animal-circle","title":{"rendered":"Animal Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really fun character exercise from Mick Barnfather, a Clown and Character teacher and director in London who we highly recommend.<\/p>\n<h2>How the game works<\/h2>\n<p>Everyone stood in a circle.<\/p>\n<p>One person says an adjective\/describing word, for instance &#8220;happy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The person next to them says an animal, for instance &#8220;shark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The next person along then becomes that character, physically becoming the Happy Shark and then saying a monologue to the rest of the group in character.<\/p>\n<p>This continues around the circle with each person getting a character, for instance Angry Squid, Sneaky Squirrel, Lazy Giraffe.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the teacher or class also ask them questions to help inspire the improviser. The characters may also interact, sometimes with the teacher setting them up in little scenarios.<\/p>\n<h2>Teaching purpose<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Character.<\/li>\n<li>Play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origin<\/h2>\n<p>We learnt this from Mick Barnfather. Mick runs clown, characters and commedic play workshops in London and we highly recommend him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-26898","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Animal Circle | Hoopla<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/resource\/animal-circle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animal Circle | Hoopla\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a really fun character exercise from Mick Barnfather, a Clown and Character teacher and director in London who we highly recommend. 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