Aim of Task: To recall what we had done before holidays. Remember the concept of status on stage.
Description of Task: After greeting us for new years and holidays, Steve took a deck of cards, shuffled it and asked for two volunteers. He gave a card nobody else saw to each one of them. The lowest value the card had, the highest status this person was going to play. In that sense, Ace would mean the highest status possible and King the lowest status possible. After giving the cards to the two volunteers he asked each one of them to walk from opposite sides of the room to the other side; using the status they had in the card. The rest of the class had to guess. It was interesting to notice who had a highest status from the two. However, in some cases, like when one person had a 5 and the other one 6, it was very difficult to guess because the status was almost the same. It was a good exercise to remember the basic characteristics about high and low status though; high status: careless, confident; low status: emotion showing, rejected, defensive body posture.
After that, we all sit in a circle. Two people went up in the middle on the circle and started improvising a scene. One of them played a high status character and the other one played a low status character. Then, whenever somebody in the circle felt like it, he would say "stop" and take the place of one of the two actors. However, this person had to change the character so if it was a low status character, it would change to high status and if it was a high status character, it would change to low status. This helped create different scenes with different characters who showed different statuses.
Reflection: When somebody changed character with someone else, he had to take the position of a character that is higher status in society. For example, if the other character was a student, the person would take the teacher character which is a person of higher status/authority in society. Other characters that students in our class took as high status characters were business owners, security guards and policemen. I think that there is certain positions of people we see daily that have authority and normally hold a high status in everyday life.
Conclusion: Normally authority plays a great role in status. Somebody who has authority can implicitly demand more from the other people around him. When acting somebody of authority during a play, a high status should be taken into account.
Description of Task: After greeting us for new years and holidays, Steve took a deck of cards, shuffled it and asked for two volunteers. He gave a card nobody else saw to each one of them. The lowest value the card had, the highest status this person was going to play. In that sense, Ace would mean the highest status possible and King the lowest status possible. After giving the cards to the two volunteers he asked each one of them to walk from opposite sides of the room to the other side; using the status they had in the card. The rest of the class had to guess. It was interesting to notice who had a highest status from the two. However, in some cases, like when one person had a 5 and the other one 6, it was very difficult to guess because the status was almost the same. It was a good exercise to remember the basic characteristics about high and low status though; high status: careless, confident; low status: emotion showing, rejected, defensive body posture.
After that, we all sit in a circle. Two people went up in the middle on the circle and started improvising a scene. One of them played a high status character and the other one played a low status character. Then, whenever somebody in the circle felt like it, he would say "stop" and take the place of one of the two actors. However, this person had to change the character so if it was a low status character, it would change to high status and if it was a high status character, it would change to low status. This helped create different scenes with different characters who showed different statuses.
Reflection: When somebody changed character with someone else, he had to take the position of a character that is higher status in society. For example, if the other character was a student, the person would take the teacher character which is a person of higher status/authority in society. Other characters that students in our class took as high status characters were business owners, security guards and policemen. I think that there is certain positions of people we see daily that have authority and normally hold a high status in everyday life.
Conclusion: Normally authority plays a great role in status. Somebody who has authority can implicitly demand more from the other people around him. When acting somebody of authority during a play, a high status should be taken into account.
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