The workshop is in two parts, the first part is an exploration of the world of a 14-year-old boy. The participants watch a morning in the boy’s life when he should be at school, making decisions about why he acts as he does. At the end of this domestic scene the boy takes a kitchen knife, puts it in his pocket and leaves. The second part the participants examine how a drama lesson can help young people address some of the issues young people are facing through the dramatization of a fictional event. The participants use the story of Perseus, decide on its focus in a lesson and create an image of a moment in the lesson, they also had to decide where the boy is in the picture and if he is aware of the knife in his pocket.
This workshop has been developed by Robert Colvill from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire