DEVISING WORKSHOPS

DEVISING WORKSHOP


We were split into four groups, two groups of 5 people and two groups of 4 people. Sharron then gave us a quote 'In order for something evil to succeed that must mean the people who are good sit back and watch.' We in groups had to then create a little play about this quote.
We created a short scene where I was in school and I was sitting by myself in a corner reading a book and minding my own business, then Tarkan and Peter come along, they the bullies and the popular ones in school. As they saw me reading the book they came and kicked it out of my hands and started calling me a nerd and other names and then they started hitting and kicking me for reading a book. A girl walks by and helps me which is Dulce. She started saying, don't worry about it, they always like this. She was trying to make me feel better and to not worry much.
We done a little run through and then we performed in front of the whole class to show what we came up with.

The next day we worked on it again and then we had to extend it more and what we done was - 10 years later, i became the Court Judge and I happened to see Tarkan and Peter being bad again and it was up to me to decide what would happen to them. I had recognised them from their voice and their faces. As I was giving my statement, I asked them if they knew who I was, and sadly they didn't remember, but when I told them who I was, their reaction changed a lot and they started feeling sorry about me. I gave them 5 years in prison and that's how the play ended. We had a lot of rehearsals and practise. This play came out from our while we were improvising and we liked the way it turned out, therefore we stuck by it.



We were split into different group and we had a task to do. We were doing Stereotypes of a drunk person, a police officer and a pastor/priest. 

In my group I had Stephan and Peter and Myself. Our task was each person chose to be either a drunken person, a police officer or a priest. We chose our roles, and I was the drunken person, Stephan and Peter were the police officer. We improvised our scene really quick and we liked how it went. I was walking down drinking getting drunk, hardly being on my feet and then the police officers see me, they come to me and they test me out. They put a line down the road and I was meant to walk straight with the line to show if I was drunk or not. As I was walking down the line, I fell down and they arrested me.
We then changed roles to different characters, to show which characters suited us the best.


We was set into pairs from Sharron. I was in a pair with Stephan. We had to watch each other walk around the space and give each other feedback. We did this for a while. The feedback that I got from Stephan was that I should move around the space more and also to keep me eyes and head up. The aim for this task was for us to look neutral and just be still. After that was done, we then had to get into groups of 6 and go in turns doing different actions that everyone in the group would have to follow. 


When I was with my group, we had 20 minutes to create a small workshop for the kids. however, my group thought the workshop needs to be 10 minutes long. When we found out that the workshop we were going to do with the kids was not going to be 10 minutes long but longer than that. We did not have much time to add more. So when the 20 minutes of preparing was done, my group and I went out to the dance room to discuss what kind of teachers we would be. We then started the mini workshop, it was a really fun experience because my class mates didn't pretend to be them selves but be other characters like we did, just so the whole effect of the workshop being performed to people we don't know becomes interesting and en-joyful to play. 

The next day, we started the day by caring on with our group workshop that we didn't finish on Tuesday.  Today there was only my group left to do the workshop and the people involved in the workshop were; Me, Alex, Stephan, Joseph and Chris. During the process of our workshop we did a lot of creative and new things. For instance, we played that Splat Game but changed it a little bit, so instead of them saying Splat the two other people around the middle person would have to say their name so that they could know everyone that's participating. After that, We got everyone to seat on the floor and spoke to them about the next activity we were going to do. They told us to split into two groups and to make a one minute play and to perform it to everyone. 
When we finished we had feedback from everyone in the room, mostly said, was, it ran really smooth and they enjoyed it a lot which we all were happy. 




















Stereotype of drunk, police officer and a pastor/priest


Create a mini workshop


given 20 minutes