Drama group led by Year 10 students
by Tanja Borcherding and Frauke Brecko (BvA)
Two pupils from year 10 have founded a drama group for the lunchbreak. This group is for all pupils in class 8 and at the moment the group has 7 members. This group is led by two girls from class 10 who like to play drama.
First, they make warm ups and easy games to learn how to play theatre. For the warm ups they say a sentence and have to express this sentence in different feelings, for example they have the sentence “to be or not to be – that is the question” and then they have to express this as a happy emotion, or a sad emotion and so on. Here they get more self-confidence, they will feel more courageous and of course they have a lot of fun.
In some weeks they want to rehearse a play. They want to show the play to their families and friends. The play is called “Theaterfieber” (english: drama fever). It is about a form who want to show a musical to their friends and families. So they rehearse this musical and there will be love between some characters and arguments and so on.
During the exchange the two girls held a group meeting and some British students visited the group. One of the British students joined in with the warm ups and then showed them the “beaversong” (which is a British warm up) and the German pupils had a lot of fun.
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