Unit 12.2, Drama exercises

Drama Exercises: growing the trust into your community group

MODULE 12

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INTRODUCTION

This module aims:

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In completing this Module of the learners will be able to:

• Get to know all participants
• Create a new form of one’s name
• Open perception and create interest for other forms of expression
• Get creative
• Create a group story, that can be used to develop a theatre piece.
• use a drama exercise with different levels of emotional intensity
• share information through a drama exercise

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Unit 12.2. Julie Story

1. EVERYBODY COMES TOGETHER IN A CIRCLE

• Whole group sits in semicircle, facing a flip chart, or wall with large sheet of paper attached.
• Facilitator draws a stick person in the middle of the sheet of paper, and asks the group: “Who is this?”
• The group names the character, with the Facilitator taking the first suggestion they hear.

2. THE FACILITATOR CONTINUES TO ASK QUESTIONS The Facilitator continues to ask questions, and notes/draws/writes the answers on the paper around the stick figure. Sample questions:

• “Where do they live?”
• “Who do they live with?”
• “Who are their friends?”
• “What do they do every day?”
• “What do they love most in the world, what do they fear most in the world?”
• “What is their heart’s desire?”

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Unit 12.2. Julie Story

3. THE FACILITATOR CONTINUES…The Facilitator continues to the next level, by introducing a problem to be solved:

• “One day there is a real crisis, which creates a big problem. What has happened, is going to happen? How does it affect the life of the character, or their life?”

The Facilitator continues to write down group answers, building the story, and beginning to ask the group more definite questions, for example:

• “How would you dramatize that incident?”
• “Who would be in that scene?”
• “Would the character talk to their best friend about this?”

4. WRITE A SCENARIO: From this stage of the process, the Facilitator starts to write a scenario – eg:TIP:3. ONE BY ONE, EVERYBODY GIVES THEIR NAME AND SHOWS THE MOVEMENT AT THE SAME TIMEThe group imitates both like an echoIf a movement name can’t be imitated by everybody, it can be adaptedTIP:

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Unit 12.2. Julie Story

5. THE PERFORMANCE:

• The Facilitator suggests that the scenes are improvised by group members, to see how the story could be turned into a performance.

• The scenes are then discussed, more scenes are created, the scenario is developed, completed, and can be performed.

• This process is a good way of building a performance with a group. The story can be broken into scenes which group members can create in smaller teams away from the main group, then sharing with each other.

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