4.1.7.
Challenging Theatre
Type Objectives
Theatre, group discussion -Realising how stereotypes can guide your way of thinking and lead us in wrong conclusions; - Reflect in the total knowledge and tools that participants gained through the whole sessions; - Enhancement of critical thinking and ways of communication.
Duration Group size Materials Description
40min 15-20 participants Printed materials Facilitators spend 2 minutes to explain the scripts of the theatres without revealing their content. There are 2 different scripts that are given:. â—? Cultural Shock A group of European people move to a Muslim capital, afraid of the culture they will have to be in due to the western media representation of Muslim countries. During Ramadan, they listen to the Mosque every day and cannot sleep properly. They cannot find a place to eat lunch before dusk. They decide to have a meeting with the local governing body to resolve their cultural differences. Present us in a small theatrical play the meeting based on the above script. [Half of the group are Europeans and the other half the local Muslim representatives.] â—? Corporate Takeover A big corporation wants to invest and build their factory in your village. The residents of the village do not know if they want the factory since they have a great clean river and a big forest around it. Before the meeting with the corporation's representatives, they are looking on the web for details of the factory. Present us in a small theatrical play the meeting based on the above script. [Half of the group are villagers and the other half representatives of the corporation.] Facilitators ask each participant to choose one of the two theatres and to create two teams. Each team is asked to implement the sketch in the way they think is more suitable to show the problem/case based on the
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