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This manual gives instructions for some of the techniques which have been used by Small World Theatre in intergenerational participatory theatre work.

It is designed to support the Generation X website (www.genx.org.uk) and CD ROM.

Let's Get Started provides ideas for managing a theatre research process.

Moving Things On suggests strategies which you can use to convert the research into a performance which is performed by members of a community and reflects the realities of the lives of young and older people from that community. It is important for you to begin without preconceived ideas.Participants need to feel ownership of the process.

The activities you choose should enable participants to feel safe to express their own concerns and to reveal the realities of their lives.

 

CONTENTS

Let's Get Started

Puppets as Intermediaries
Hot Seating
River of Life
Molecules
Still Pictures
Masks
Storymaking with Images
Improvisation


Moving Things On

Bringing the Generations Together
Voice Work
Devising a Play from Improvisation

 

Performances in the Community

Performances outside the Community

Evaluation

Suggested Reading/Resources

 

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