Forum Theatre workshop #1

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Dr. Jennifer Hartley.

Game #1:
the 1,2,3 game when there are two people i say 1, you say 2, i say 3, you say 1......in a loop, that sorta thing. next step. replace the numbers with random noises and actions. did this at TAPS. hmmmmmm

Game #2
follow the hand. something that i did with katharine in my contemporary dance workshop. All you do is, one guy follows the hand, and one guy leads with the hand. your face has to be a particular distance with the hand. Thats all. average game. Just got messed up when it was me + michelle + tilly doing it together.

Game #3
forming a picture with a word. She says a word, we discuss (supposedly) the image we form and make a tableau from it. Apparently it shows that we aren't really united in this game because we never got around to discussing any bits.

Game#4
carrying each other. We can only stand using the number of body parts she says. We got 2 hands 2 feet and it was soooo hard. I was on trym's back and we tried to ask mark to do a handstand so we carry his legs? NO. didn't work out. :P

Game #4
This game was so.....hahahah...weird. we have to have a piece of paper between us at our foreheads and drop it till it was caught between our ankles. Then we had to get it up again. the getting up part was difficult.

Game #5
Lined up in a row with a paper between each of us. had to move without dropping the paper.

Game #6
Lined up in a row doing game #2

Game #7
I LOVE THIS GAME! high ratings ding ding ding ding! each person has a number. walk random about the room. She calls out the number. The person in possession of the number has to drop dead. the others rescue. AWESOMEEEE

P/S: The games listed are in random order.

ok. so here is forum theatre and theatre of the oppressed. it uses a series of games to bring out the best in people. playing games to allow us to get more comfortable with each other and then bringing in scripts and stuff. Dr. Jennifer Hartley does this working with kids with AIDS, HIV, post war, refuge camps.....all good stuff. Its just quite a difficult sort of theatre.