Workshop two

Today was an interesting day there were some new faces and some people had not returned. It was interesting that we had spoken about this and how this could have impacted on the dynamics of the group. I was really surprised by the work that happened and really proud of the relationships that are starting to form within the group. There is such potential, And I have high hopes for the final performance.

You need to reflect on Monday's workshop by going through the tasks game by game and say what you learnt, or what people in the group did by participating in the activities. Some of these activities were:

Atoms: people walk around space and number scores out an object. People in each group have to create your project in a time frame and freeze at the end. What did you gain from doing this activity? What does it allow the participants to do? Where you surprised by the responses?

Sharks: Islands are set out on the floor using a A3 paper. Everybody moves around the room, one person's a shark,  whenever the word SHARK is shouted out, you have to run to the island. If anybody is left in the water they can be tagged and become a shark. As the game proceeds islands are removed and it is the participants job to support each other on the islands. What did this game do for the group? Where you surprised by the responses?

Caterpillar race: in trams you all have a chair, these chairs start off by being stacked up at one end of the room. The aim of the game is to get everybody from and every chair from one end of the room to the other, the only thing is, nobody's feet can touch the floor.  Why was he such an excellent team game? Explain the responses, what did you get from it?

We then played an improvisation game. Every single person wrote down a location and an opening line to a scene. These were picked randomly and in pairs  people improvised the scene. We watched these back and evaluated. Explain some of the improvisations. Were you surprised by the responses, what is starting to happen in our group?