Session 1
Project Aims:
•Have fun through game play and drama.
•Challenge the stigma of mental
illness.
•Create a piece of work with Artistic
integrity that we can all be proud of.
Mad hatter's tea party Friday 13th
June - dress up and serve tea.
9-11am
Name, strand and 1 thing you like
Tension release exercise
Golden breath
Bomb and shield
Zip zap boing
Massage circle
Glass serpent
Imrov - 11-1pm
Mission, name and 1 thing.
Trust circle
mirror circle
Park bench
Image circle
Forum theatre Scenarios
Change the scenario
2-4 pm
Groups 4-5 Improvising from the
following texts
Pale Horse
Dissocia
Book of disquiet
4.48
Plenary, what we have liked challenged,
discovered? For Friday everyone bring a warm up game they can lead.
Session 2
- Student lead games from ‘Games for Actors and
Non-Actors’ by Augusto Boal.
- Image Theatre. Sculpting A and B
Lost and Found
Insecure and Confident
Excluded and Included
Voiceless and Voiced
Weak and Strong
- Create a still Tableaux of five images brought to life with music
- Everyone ask a question that they want this work
to answer on the theme of 'challenging the stigma of mental illness through
drama’. Create a list of these to be shared with the group after lunch.
- Warm up exercise (vocal, physical and shake out)
- Relaxation exercise - open and close like a flower. pick up a pebble, a net, a hammer.
- Choose a question from the list and answer that
question.
- Making the body articulate (psycho-physical
exercises from Michael Chekhov ‘To the Actor’)
- Shuffle
the answers. Everyone choose a different one and find a psychological gesture
for the story you chose.
- Perform your psychological gesture and read out
story to class. Connect to the emotion of the piece using psychological
gesture
Session 3
Lesson
objective: To learn about status and create some scenes exploring the stigma of
mental health in relation to status.
11.15 – 11.30
Games Lead by: Kizzy, Hannah, Karise
11.30 – 1.00
1. Grandmas Footsteps
2. What has changed
3. The French Telephone
4. The great game of power
5. Status party
Lunch
6. Colombian Hypnosis
7. Mad Hatter’s (with
status - groups of 4)
8. ‘What is normal?’ writing task and
sharing.
Status Interview
and Status Party
1. Explain and explore the idea of “status”:
2. We all have different status in different situations.
3. From now on we will describe it on a 1-10 scale, 10 being
practically a God and 1 being the lowliest creature you can imagine.
4. What status are you? If a ten walked in the room, would
you talk to him/her? What about a 1?
5. When was a time in which you were a 10 – in other words, when
you had complete power and authority in a situation?
6. Have scraps of paper each with a number from 1-10 written on
it. Mix them up in a bowl/hat.
7. One at a time, students will draw a number from a hat.
8. Without telling us their number, the actor knocks on door
enters the stage, stands, has a job interview.
9. The other students try and guess what number they were.
10. Have the student try it a few times until it becomes clear to
the audience.
11. Ask two students to take the stage and improvise a part scene.
Party host and party guest, the party is bring your own but the guests have
forgotten to bring anything.
12. Half-way through, tell
them to “switch” statuses. Make sure they don’t switch characters, but
only who is in control of the situation, keeping their original characters.
Reflection:
- Explain that status is one more layer they can add to their
characters.
- If you are rehearsing a play, ask them to think about each scene
their character is in and what “status number” their character would be.
What factors are influencing their level of status?
