You've probably all heard of theatresports, what with school competitions, Auckland champs and guys making fools of themselves in assembly. But do you really know what it is and how it works? I have been doing theatresports at school since the beginning of my third form year. I'm going to talk to you about types of games, how some of my favourite games are played and finally how a theatresports competition is organised.
             There are tons of different games in theatresports, There are Warm up games which aren't really proper games they are exercises to get the actors warmed up such as Space jump, freeze tag and action justification. Blind round games are very simple games like Paper, Alphabet and Poem. Challenge games are basically the main part of a competition and are the common theatresports games these are Replay, Stunt double, Arms, Rollercoaster and tons more. The longest games in theatresports are the epic or finale games these are Ballet, Sermon/sonnet/song, and Opera.
             OK so now you've heard all these names of games and are wondering how they work. Paper is a game where before you start you scatter some pieces of paper over the front of the stage and during the scene you have to pick up a piece of paper and read the line on it. You then have to try to work that line into the scene somehow and continue with the scene.
             Alphabet is another simple game where each player has to start each sentence with the next letter of the alphabet so if at the beginning of the scene someone said "Afternoon sir,"" The next player would reply "Beautiful day isn't itâ€" and the first one could say "Certainly is sir."" And so on†This game usually gets quite hard towards the end of the alphabet where there will usually be big pauses and somebody always ends up saying "Xylophones, Look a flock of flying Xylophones!â€"
             Replay games can be quite fun this is when you do a short 30 second scene and
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