Drama work Sept 25

1. What makes role-play enjoyable?
The fact that your making up the role and can make that person be whatever you want them to be. You can release things that are going on in the real world through characters.

2. How does adding details improve the work? What are those details?
It makes it more believable and realistic. It’s the small things that count like the way you move your hands when you talk, the way you speak or move on stage.

3. Some sociologists say that because most families today have so much technology, we have become so self-sufficient that we think that we don’t need communities anymore. What do you think about this?
It’s true to an extent. If we all locked ourselves away in some basement with a cell phone and a laptop no one would really feel connected to anyone. If we can actually cooperate with a large group of people verbally then it is much more useful.

4. How important is concentration and focus in this kind of work? Why?
Very important because you have to listen to what the other people are saying all the time and while your doing that you have to stay in character.

5. How important is listening to others in this kind of work? Why?
Once again very important because if your partner makes an offer and your off in the magical realm of over there the scene immediately stops and you usually break character.

6. How does role play in drama help us understand ourselves as human beings on this planet?
We can express things that we are going through in role and laugh about it and keep on going. It also makes us understand what other people may be feeling if you are 100% committed to a role.