Convener : Mishka, Jan.
List of participants : Mishka, Cindy, Cristina, Melissa, Jan, Vanessa, Linda.
Discussion and recommendations (important guideline : KISS [Keep It Simple, Stupid]) :
Why are you coming ?
Cindy, Christina : no experience, interest, what is possible ? How ?
Melissa : activity with difficulties, the children really enjoy but are sometimes too hurry, they don’t listen to each other, difficulties to make a common story with all the envys.
Jan-Mishka : work in the sector.
 OPEN-THEATRE : being an actor is participating in a way doing the lights, the costumes, seeing the spectacle, being on stage. All the parts are as important at the same level .
Try to involve the public to come to the performance.
Many games before, drawing, just talk. With each other, create the moment for everyone use animals, objects, allow each person to take of it.
Create a story : all together, to involve the story. find a subject what is the main issue, for persons. What we want to say, not the form is not.
Open theatre/oppressed theatre/other form… poetry, improvisation, adding the knowledge/social theatre.
Equallity between public and actors.
Change the shape of theatre maybe the public could be in circle around the actors.
Children need structures. Adults more easy to improvise. Have ideas about that. Defines the context.
For games, children improvise easily.
Theatre can fix conflicts, improvisation is a good thing, maybe with a puppet to take a distance from the problems and some rules to not to go too far.
Try to adapt the traditional game to create a performance, a game that children know.
Theatre game : “ The village, the children choose a character or profession,… after they’ve made the village living without words. Really good miming game.
Theatre to develop self confidence, capacities, safe shape to discuss about hard things, to know history. You need to adapt with every different groups. Develop empathy. Be careful to help them to come back when there are personal. (Involvement issues). Be trained before the bad stuff =bring the bad stuff slowly.
Inclusive and good with/for people that is shy. There is space for everyone and everyone is important. |
