Let's make some drama!

Here are some thoughts on Tuesday 23rd February's session:

The kids are often asking us when we will begin working on the show, the answer to this is that we have already begun! Actually from the very first workshops we were creating exercises that we hoped would allow the participants to grow in confidence, team work and performance ability, all of which contributes to the final performance we are creating.

However, hopefully this week's sessions will be a little more illuminating to the workshoppers as we started to work on creating mini-scenes based on ideas straight from what they had written. Everyone seemed very supportive when viewing each other's work which included a journey around a zoo and spy's paradise. Today we also introduced red clown noses to the proceedings, quite a tricky concept to grasp as quite surprisingly when performing with a nose, subtlety is the key. A few people were a bit weary of the little mask, but as we in Fiasco Division do enjoy a bit of clowning around we do hope we can enthuse participants to the wonders of the theatrical clown by next workshop.

I think the participants are now really starting to let their imaginations go, which just opens up the door of possibilities for us all. Let's hope there is such a strong turn out for Friday's workshop too.

Lauren.