Unit 12.3, Drama exercises

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MODULE 12

Drama Exercises: growing the trust into your community group

This module aims:

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INTRODUCTION

In completing this Module 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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emotional intensity

High Level

emotional intensity

Medium Level

emotional intensity

Low Level

Each exercise you do in the group you work with can be implemented with three levels of intensity (John Bergmann - actor, director, theatre theorist):

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emotional intensity

Low Level

"Change the chair"

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1. Participants sit in a circle, the moderator stands outside the circle and asks different questions:

• Who has black clothes today?
• Who had breakfast in the morning?
• Who travelled by bus today?

Unit 12.3. Intensity emotional levels in: Drama exercises

emotional intensity

Medium Level

"Change the chair"

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2. The game “changing chair” is played exactly the same as at the low level, only the moderator can increase the emotional load of the question depending on the group she/he works with. For a group of women from rural areas for whom it is desired to increase the degree of participation in civic life, the following questions could be asked:

• Who wants to participate voluntarily in community activities?
• Who wants to volunteer in programs with seniors?
• Who doesn't want to volunteer in programs with children?

Unit 12.3. Intensity emotional levels in: Drama exercises

High Level

emotional intensity

"Change the chair"

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3. We take as an example the exercise for the development of the entrepreneurial spirit of women living in rural areas. Exercise is played exactly as at the low and medium level but there are also questions of high emotional intensity:

• Who has a family member who has gone to work abroad?
• Who suffers that this person in the family is away from home?
• Who fails to cover the monthly expenses of the house from the income that enters the house?
• Who can't afford to go out with friends to a restaurant once a month?

Unit 12.3. Intensity emotional levels in: Drama exercises

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