Introduction To Farce

* Emotion Scale 10 Mins

Aims: To convey levels of emotion

1. Make an audience.
2. Ask seven people to stand up on the “stage” and make a line facing forward.
3. Number them 1 to 7 in the order they are standing .
4. Explain that this is an emotion scale.
5. Choose one of the following for the scale – happy, sad, angry or scared.

Let’s use happy as an example. Each person in turn has to say “I am happy” and show it with their body, face and tone of voice. Number 1 is a little happy and Number 7 is the most you can possibly be.

Ask the group to give an example of every level of happiness.

For example:
1 =Glad it’s sunny
2 = Ate their favourite chocolate bar
3 = Start of the weekend
4 = A special celebration such as a wedding,
graduation or birthday
5 = Going on a long holiday
6 = Won the lottery
7 = So overcome with this emotion you might die!

Try this with the four key emotions of happy, sad, angry and scared.