Day 5

REHEARSALS

The participants went through a long new process of rehearsals with Radha and Ravi (the facilitators of the training workshop).  Some of the problems that were raised by the performances were family issues, distance and love, the complexity of relationships, ego, teamwork and responsibilities, gender roles, societal expectations and education.

Find here some pictures of the rehearsal:

FORUM THEATRE PERFORMANCE

Besides the rain and traffic in Bangalore City, many people came to our performance.

After each performance, a discussion happened about the themes it touched upon. Then the audience chose one performance out of the five; and we did a forum theatre exercise on it.

Performance 1: Is my life actually mine?

The audience encouraged and facilitated by the Joker (Radha), identified different topics and issues from this short play. Some of them were the role of men in society, the power individuals have to take their own decisions, pressures of the system, capitalist system, where is the place for people’s own decisions? Where does happiness lay? Other topics were discussed such as the expectation of systematic structures that have been imposed in out societies, relationships between each other and the concept of choice and free will.

Performance 2: I wish you would…

This performance raised concerns about teamwork and organizational work. How difficult it is to do collective work and be responsible. How challenging it is to establish common goals when in one job there are many people thinking differently about its mission. Also, how difficult it is to have common priorities when we do collective work.

Performance 3: Little Boxes

This performance was a critic about the current general global education system of grades, competition, expectations and monotony.

Performance 4: Trapped

This performance was about not having needs met and the struggles of one person trying to find a common ground in which she could have “the best of both worlds”. The play ended questioning: is that possible, to have “the best of both worlds”?

Performance 5: Identity

This performance was a very emotional moment for everyone who was in the room. It told us the story of a gay couple trying to be accepted and respected by their family and friends. The Forum was made with this story; in which the spectators become ‘spect-actors’.

Among the learning we gained today, one was that pedagogy theatre conceives solidarity as running the same risks.

We have born with a huge role in making changes.

By Sara Pan Algarra

Taken from: http://liveandlifes.blogspot.in/