exercise · all tools
The Old Pike
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
One player is the old pike; everyone else are small fish along a wall who want to cross the lake. On the pike's signal they run, and a fish the pike touches takes root on the lake bed as seaweed — which from the next crossing can catch fish too, swaying in place. It runs until everyone is caught or one fish remains, who becomes the next pike. The sheet's tip is to set the pike's speed to the room: old and slow in a small one.
Hold with care
- Running and sudden direction changes in a shared space; the usual cautions about floor, footwear and furniture apply and the sheet does not give them
- A mass sprint in one direction across a room, with fixed obstacles appearing as the game goes on
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- teatermila.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gammelgaddan.pdf — Teater Mila — Övningar, open
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Teater Mila, Luleå — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Teater Mila — Övningar
status: checked · added 2026-08-31