KA229 - School Exchange Partnerships
2018-1-ES01-KA229-051135
Third Performance
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Country of venue: Germany
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Topic: Cultural Differences & Physical Apparience
Even a step further this time and again to be performed in a "non-friendly environment". The play would take place in a busy train station and the idea was to perform a short but proper theatre play.
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As in our previous work we prepared the story quite thoroughly, with warming up exercises to get to know one another and some others to develop trust among the group.
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To develop improvisation skills we worked again using Dorothy Heathcote's methodology, with the exercises called "Wild Animals", which you can access in Drama Based Teaching section.
The plot was decided to be about cultural differences for the three theatre methods during the first day, so we built the story about it. The story was a bout two muslim girls sitting on a bench and a couple of far right wing party guys turn up trying to chase them out because they were not supposed to be German wearing hijabs. Some boys and girls who were nearby tried to help the girls confronting the two guys. We recorded the play twice, the first one at school, the second one in the train station. We couldn't finish the play as planned.
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Again, we set the scene very carefully as we didn't want to miss anything that was happening live. Then we set some members of the team in different angles of the station, some others pretending to be commuters, and the muslim girls recording the audio track with their smartphones. All our cameras were smartphones. We tried to do some more recordings in different settings, bars, restaurants, etc but we didn't get permission to do it. We have to take into account that we had just 4 days to prepare everything and just one morning to do the recordings. That is not the best situation to have time to find the right people to talk to in order to get the permits. Anyway, I think the results were more than decent. Have a look at the video and judge for yourself.