1. Emotional detachment
2. Gestus is the Bestus
3. Narrator is greater than the hater alligator
- In small groups, the students will be allocated a situation/ stimulus that is a typically emotional scene
- Students will improvise a short emotional scene using this stimulus, using realist acting techniques and conventions. (Acting and reacting naturally)
- Once the students have performed this scene once, re-enact the same scene, however use self-narration and 3rd person dialogue to alienate and emotionally detach the characters from the audience.
2. Gestus is the Bestus
- Each student will walk around the room neutrally, focused and in their own space.
- The teacher/ workshop supervisors will call out stimulus words, for example “Poverty,” “Global warming,” “Inequality,” “Beauty,” “Marriage” etc
- Each student will form a getsus in response to each stimuli
- Remember a gestus is combining a gesture and a social meaning/ idea in a single movement
3. Narrator is greater than the hater alligator
- In small groups, students are given a stimulus scenario, and are given 30 seconds to come up with a short scene.
- One of the students from each group will be the ‘narrator’ of the scene, and will stand out the front (independently from the action), and dictate/ narrate the scene whilst the other students act it out behind him/ her
- This narration will prevent an emotional connection with the audience