USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
USING DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL - Reeling & Writhing
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What is the show<br />
and why did we make it?<br />
In May 2005 <strong>Reeling</strong> & <strong>Writhing</strong> were commissioned by West Lothian<br />
Council’s Arts Education Service to make the performance ‘The Good<br />
Things’. ‘The Good Things’ is an interactive theatre experience that<br />
engages a P7 audience in drugs related issues.<br />
Actors help the audience to share knowledge and air their opinions<br />
about drugs related issues by, as young characters in the play, talking<br />
directly to the audience, asking for their opinions and advice about the<br />
drugs related scenarios those characters find themselves in (at a party,<br />
at work, at school, in the park, at home, with friends, with strangers).<br />
This style of performance theatre allows the audience to make decisions<br />
on behalf of the characters and take an active role in determining<br />
the outcome of their actions.As with many other issue-related topics,<br />
this style of active learning revolves around understanding the concepts<br />
of ‘choice and consequence’ or ‘cause and effect’.<br />
We are pleased that this play is part of a network of drugs awareness<br />
learning involving West Lothian Police education department, National<br />
Choices for Life, the West Lothian network of School Nurses and West<br />
Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service.
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