learning in action through participatory theatre: sharing the toolkit. james wilson faculty of...
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Learning in action through Participatory Theatre:
Sharing the toolkit.James Wilson
Faculty of Health [email protected]@jamesjwilson
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Reclaiming
‘Role Play’
The Words That Strike Fear Into People's Hearts
WELCOME
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“In a moment, we're going to do role play”
Overview• The Background: Towards ‘Participatory Theatre’
• What is Forum Theatre?
• What is ‘Zappers Theatre’
• Questions
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The Background
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2004: 1st curtain call Misinterpretation breeds a ‘hybrid’
The Background
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2004: 1st curtain callMisinterpretation breeds a ‘hybrid’2004: ‘hybrid’ Forum Theatre
The Background
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2004: ‘hybrid’ Forum Theatre led to…
Student Evaluation ‘Hearing the student voice’, ‘Engaging’,
‘Interactive’ and ‘Impact in Practice’
ResearchThe ‘Real’ Forum Theatre
Active Learning
Learning & Teaching‘Confidence to innovate’
Playback Theatre
Boxing seconds
Silence in court
Stop/Think
Interactive Theatre
Invisible theatre
A Theatre of CardsOur evolution using interactive theatre methods
• Early trials: High enthusiasm, low competence & high chance of failure• Creating and building a ‘bank’ of interactive plays
• Growing the team: Actors• Learning from evaluation: Audience preparation
• The importance of facilitation• The ‘Joker’ role: Training & refinement
• Increasing the ‘toolkit’ • Accessibility: patients & students as actors• External engagement
Sustainable? Profile Raising?
Origins & Process of Forum Theatre
Origins: Simultaneous Dramaturgy Devise: Narratives, literature inclusion & Story board
(with actor prompts) Rehearse & Refine: Actor selection, audience
preparation, rehearse and test the play Present: Theatre exercises, watch play, discuss & debate
reactions, replay with audience interaction Evaluate: Evaluation tools (e.g. audience experience framework)
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Origins & Process of Zappers Theatre?
Origins: Influenced by ‘choose your own adventure’ Research & Create: Human book, story board
Falling down the rabbit hole (2013) & LOCD IN (2014) Recruit actors: Student nurses, NHS partners Rehearsal: Collaboration & learning together Present:
1. The audience watch the play following a main character2. At pre-chosen points decisions are required to be made by the main character3. The play is paused and the audience is presented with the characters decisions4. The audience use the zappers to ‘vote’ on the decision they would like to take5. The decision with the highest vote determines how the story will continue
Evaluate: Testimonials
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Examples of Interactive Theatre
Medicine Midwifery
Anti-Stigma
Mentorship
Psychosis
Dementia
Allied Health
Admin & Student Support
Learning Disability
Complaints
Self Harm
Welcome to Nursing
Admin
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More than ‘just role play’Whatever happened to ‘play’ for adults?
Summing up
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Interactive Theatre• Deals with emotive subjects (Often hard to teach by didactic
methods)• Arouse interest, attention and curiosity (Starting point) • Social and communal• Obeys rules and conventions• Appeals to different learning styles:
o Visual (Spatial)o Aural (Auditory)o Verbal (linguistic)o Physical (Kinesthetic)o Logical (Mathematical)o Social (Interpersonal)o Solitary (Intrapersonal)
If you would like to see more
• Forum Theatre:Education and Training - Using the Forum Theatre method in healthcare education: http://vimeo.com/79101486
• Zappers Theatre:LOCD IN (Full performance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWsiXSYkOE
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What is Forum Theatre?
https://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d58e4e94-73ae-4880-8e02-bc8df08a4416
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What is Zappers Theatre?
https://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=00269f97-4845-4b61-aa3b-994a817da6c4
