KA229 - School Exchange Partnerships
2018-1-ES01-KA229-051135
First Performance
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Country of venue: Hungary
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Topic: Disability
After the warming up and improvisation exercises, we worked on the play. As the rest of the theatre methods, the story had to do with Tourette syndrome. In this case, it was a guy who couldn't stop swearing, which was supposed to cause lots of problems.
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The "big day" would be at the gym, where the whole school would be gathered in a celebration to welcome the British ambassador. As nobody should be suspicious about what was going on, we decided that it'd be a good idea to start with the play a couple of days before in the school canteen, so that the rest of the students could hear a bit about the problem.
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The guy with "Tourette syndrome", who was a student from a different country because nobody had to know him, had one of his tics, which was unbearable for one of the girls. They start shouting each other and some other students, who didn't know it was a play, tried to help him. At the end of all the performances, a discussion time started.
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In the video below, you can see a bit of what happened, although the sound is not good enough to be understood, we couldn't sort it out because it was a live performance, but it helped us to take those issues more into account for the following shows.