Thereafter that new word stuck with me, and kept recurring on the screen in the conscious part of my brain for days afterwards. I heard other people say the word, saw it in the subtitles of an American film, heard it in a song. After a while, it slipped into the realm of all my other words. The scenes were based in the rooms of the Vocabulary House we had been building and were based around the idea of conflict. Image Theatre basically functions without words.
Students form statues of each other and then move into scenes.
In pairs, students mould their partner into the form of their statue without words. The sculptors use their hands or show, by miming, the way they want their partners to look. Then pairs swap roles. After each round, sculptors walk around and guess the identities of the other sculptors' statues. The students then get into groups of four and construct tableaux on a single theme.