COD 2007 - PS29

Script-Lab Classroom

For teachers from 3rd grade through high school.

1 sessions, start: 31-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Berlfein
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 31 August 2007 02:00 pm 05:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Daniel Berlfein

Daniel holds a Masters in Educational Theatre from New York University. He is also a playwright and a performer. He studied acting and playwriting both in Argentina and the US. He has designed and led workshops throughout the US and Latin America (Argentina, México, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador). He has also worked as a playwright and educator in residence at a rural theatre in El Salvador (Tiempos Nuevos Teatro). Mr. Berlfein was an artist in residence at New York University, City University of New York, and Young Playwrights Inc. In addition to this, he has been implementing playwriting and educational theatre techniques in New York City and New Jersey's public schools since 1994. In 2005, his play "I'm With Mauricio" was selected for "INTAR's" New Works Festival in New York City. In 2011 his piece "People Watching" has been presented at "IATI theatre" in down town Manhattan. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he teaches drama and writes plays. His last to pieces had been produced in "La Nueva Casona del Teatro", and "Espacio Abierto" de Roxana Randon. Daniel is the artistic director of “Teatro en Acción” a Senior Citizen´s theatre group.
For teachers from 3rd grade through high school.
Within the context of a writing laboratory, participants will both go through the script-development process, and learn how to implement fun writing exercises for their students. Note: These techniques do not require teachers' previous theatre training.
- Participants will wear both hats. In this workshop, participants wear both the student and the educator's hat. - Ice breakers and focusers. Establishing a safe environment to write and create. - Character Creation. Participants will be introduced to character-profile writing. Workshop members will create animal characters, nature characters, creature characters and human characters. - Developing storylines. Members of the class will develop a storyline for their character (a-character wants something, b- character tries to get it, c- character succeeds or fails). - Developing a storyline through comic strips. In this activity we work with the same structure described above. The comic strip is more appropriate for younger groups. - Playwriting techniques. Participants will be introduced to a series of hands- on playwriting exercises. Writing a day in the life of their character, character's wish letter, characters' secrets and or confessions. These exercises will lead to monologue writing. - Creating dialogues individually or collaboratively. Workshop members will be introduced to different techniques to help them create dialogue for a scene. Picture prompts, still image, group poem prompts. These activities will also lead to looking at the importance of conflict in a script. - Presenting the scenes. By the end of the workshop participants will read their work to the rest of the group. Together group members will exchange ideas on how to implement these techniques within their classroom. Participants will also discuss what type of presentation would be useful for their students.
DIE (Drama in Education) strategies and devises and playmaking exercises.
Sklar, D.J. (1991) Playmaking, Children Writing & Performing Their Own Plays, New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Chapman, G. (1991) Teaching Young Playwrights, New Hampshire: Heinemann.
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