Challenge 13 – Due 14/02 at 09:59:59am GMT
Hello!
Please write a play to be performed to 14-18 year olds.
Use your phone to record as many people as possible talking about an incident in their lives, after which things were changed.
OR Ask them to talk about their own experiences in the light of a subject that you are interested in.
EG: Mental Health
First Love
Gender
Bullying
Drugs
Knife crime etc
It’s important that people talk about real lived experiences rather than give opinions and that they only disclose what they feel safe disclosing.
Listen to the recordings.
Write a monologue play attributing as many as possible of those memories to one person.
You can use Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads as a template if you like.
I was crashing pretty hard after my very first therapy session since that horrible break-up in college, so I didn’t have the opportunity to get out and find kids to talk to. I tried checking vlogs on YouTube, but that quickly got SUPER depressing, so I just re-hashed one of my own childhood bullying experiences and tried to view it as I would have in High School. Surprisingly, I learned a bit about myself in the process.
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