Reflect on your experience last week exploring Verbatim Theater. Why do you think people do it? What does it accomplish? What was your experience like (and your group's experience)? Was the process difficult? And if so, how so? Were any aspects easier than others? Did you enjoy it? Why or why not? What did you learn?
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Why do you think people do it?
I think that people do Verbatim Theater because they want to tell the story of the "underdog" or more so the "little people". It is a powerful message that people send out to the public with these types of theater, and it would make sense to use these different methods in order to propel a movement and show why people should care about something.
What does it accomplish?
It demonstrates that theater isn't always a fictional piece and it shows different points of views about troublesome topics. This style of theater often also makes you confront a topic that is relatively shut down and I think that it provides a good grounding for any particular movements.
What was your experience like (and your group's experience)?
My experience wasn't my favorite, I was originally just going to write the script for this project which then turned into being the interviewer and coming up with the questions to ask, writing the script and acting it out. I felt like I had taken on a lot of the work and while most of the group members used what I said and came up with their own spins and other ideas based off of that I felt like I was feeding them answers and I would have liked more help.
My group's experience I fell was the same as mine, it wasn't really that functional and we didn't have the original actor in the piece and I think that if we planned better and worked more cohesively rather than one person doing something and everyone else waiting around we could have split the work and done it at the same time.
Was the process difficult? And if so, how so?
I thought that the process was difficult because the group couldn't find a topic that we wanted to focus on so our start was very slow moving and then we didn't have time to do any blocking or really any run-throughs.
Were any aspects easier than others?
It was easier to write the script and move on from there than trying to get interviews done. It was also fairly easy to act out because there was no memorization or blocking.
Did you enjoy it? Why or why not?
I sort of enjoyed it, I didn't like having to do so much of the work and having to act it out when I wasn't comfortable with the idea. I would have much rather done more behind the scenes stuff rather than acting for the whole class so early in the year.
What did you learn?
I learned a lot about how difficult this theater is, originally I thought that it was easy and didn't take all that much work but in the end it really did.
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