More Yolanda Session

Here's the other part of the Yolanda session. . . .

We then did the status game where you put a card on your head without looking at it and socialize with the others, trying to figure out who you are according to how others treat you. There were a couple spins on this game I haven't used before though. One was that you were not allowed to talk. You just had to use your body language to show others how they should be treated. After doing this, we, of course, tried to guess who we were. The second variation on this game was to get a card, look at it, and then put it away so only you knew who you were. Then, again without talking, you were to look around and with y our body language portray who you were. You were then to try to find the other person who had the same card as you (there was only one other person who it could be).

After this status game, we played just an open scene where one of us was the teacher and one of us was the student. The student was coming in because they had bad grades and the teacher needed to talk to them about it. The teachers were always a "10." The students started as a "2." In the middle of the scene we were stopped and then the students became a "5." Then again we were stopped and they became a "10." We discussed the changes as the students raised in status. Then, we were given a script of The Tempest, a scene between Prospero and Ariel. The talked about status within the scene and played some status in the scene.

After this, we worked with the game we played before, which was the "probe, hook, block, and deflect" activity. We ran through this a few times, and then we were asked if we felt like anything was missing. Some suggestions were given like "to tease," "to raise up," "to humiliate." We then came up for actions with those and worked the scene again. Personally, I found the scene more interesting with more options. I felt like it had a few more dimensions to the characters.

Then we were given another script to The Tempest. It was a scene between Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban. We played kind of a version of "Sit, Stand, and Bend." One person always had to be sitting, one standing, and one on one knee or lying down. It was to work with levels and power within the scene.


Finally, we were given three different speeches of Caliban's. We were divided into three different groups. All you had to do was get the general essence of the speech. Then you were to create a silent movie to the speech. Everyone performed. Then you added in sounds but not words. Then you added in key words in the speech into your movie. This was a VERY cool exercise! It was interesting to see all t he speeches develop as more things were added.