In-class writing
Reflect on your experience last week exploring Verbatim Theater. Why do you think people do it? What does it accomplish? What was your experience like (and your group's experience)? Was the process difficult? And if so, how so? Were any aspects easier than others? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not? What did you learn?
I think verbatim theatre is a really fun topic to do because we are interviewing people in the class. The reason why people are doing it is because we can know a lot of truths from interviewing people. To unreavel the secrets that the person might not able to say it in front of everyone, feeled ashamed or timid; as a result verbatim theatre helps them to say it. Moreover, this kind of theatre is realistic, which helps us to know more about the societal issues. Therefore, it can help us to think deeply about what should we do to change the situation. What’s fun about it is we all have different answers about questions. The actors as the interviewers will discover the unique techniques or attitudes from their movement when they are speaking. For example, our group is about roommates, and all of us have varied opinions about having roommates, and we have different emotions to our roommates. As we speak to the interviewers, we kind of expose ourselves to them, telling them our personality and our speaking ways. My experience was spoken by Grace. In our group, we only have four people, so we decided maybe two of the people can perform in the light, yet the two people need to perform other people in the group by interviewing them. Grace and David volunteered to be actors, so they will perform our experiences with roommates. My experience is to tell my story to Grace and teach her my actions in the meantime. For example, I will certainly enlarge my actions so that Grace can see it clearly. I taught Grace to cross her legs like moving her legs two rounds. Also, I said maybe Grace can touch her hair because I always touch mine. To illustrate more, I told her that maybe sometimes you can laugh a few times on the stage. Nevertheless, when she actually visualized all my movements, imitating as another Helen, I was shocked. Actually the process is somewhat difficult for us because we don’t know which part should we tell to the people. Some parts were kind of imapporpriate. Until the last second, we are still deciding which part of the story is okay to say. Furthermore, sometimes it’s hard for us to imitate because we don’t know the person well enough.
I think verbatim theatre is a really fun topic to do because we are interviewing people in the class. The reason why people are doing it is because we can know a lot of truths from interviewing people. To unreavel the secrets that the person might not able to say it in front of everyone, feeled ashamed or timid; as a result verbatim theatre helps them to say it. Moreover, this kind of theatre is realistic, which helps us to know more about the societal issues. Therefore, it can help us to think deeply about what should we do to change the situation. What’s fun about it is we all have different answers about questions. The actors as the interviewers will discover the unique techniques or attitudes from their movement when they are speaking. For example, our group is about roommates, and all of us have varied opinions about having roommates, and we have different emotions to our roommates. As we speak to the interviewers, we kind of expose ourselves to them, telling them our personality and our speaking ways. My experience was spoken by Grace. In our group, we only have four people, so we decided maybe two of the people can perform in the light, yet the two people need to perform other people in the group by interviewing them. Grace and David volunteered to be actors, so they will perform our experiences with roommates. My experience is to tell my story to Grace and teach her my actions in the meantime. For example, I will certainly enlarge my actions so that Grace can see it clearly. I taught Grace to cross her legs like moving her legs two rounds. Also, I said maybe Grace can touch her hair because I always touch mine. To illustrate more, I told her that maybe sometimes you can laugh a few times on the stage. Nevertheless, when she actually visualized all my movements, imitating as another Helen, I was shocked. Actually the process is somewhat difficult for us because we don’t know which part should we tell to the people. Some parts were kind of imapporpriate. Until the last second, we are still deciding which part of the story is okay to say. Furthermore, sometimes it’s hard for us to imitate because we don’t know the person well enough.
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