Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Research, write and perform!

Performing a play requires a great deal of research and preparation. This semester the Advanced Theater class is performing the play, One Thousand Cranes. The play is about the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima.

As a classroom exercise I asked my students to write down the word Hiroshima and brainstorm a list of as many related words as they could think of. Here are some words they came up with.

Japan
bomb
many casualties/death
World War II
fear/panic
culture (Non-Western)
mutation/birth defects/cancer
radiation
Pearl Harbor
explosion
emotional trauma

Next, I paired them up and instructed them to write a scene using as many words as possible. The following videos demonstrate the performed scenes they wrote in class.











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