This week our class started a five week long residency with dramatic artist Michael Wehrli. The students, despite some initial nerves, are loving it. They ease into the eventual stage production through theater games, acting exercises and improvisation. Let's face it, we are pretty stacked with comedic and performative talent in this class, so I look forward to a great show.
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| Adam gives Bella ideas about line breaks in her poem |
Since only half of my actors only go to their drama workshop at a time, I get to work really closely with the other half of the class. This first week I am taking advantage of the time to do some really hands-on revision and editing work. We took some time to model what an effective partner feedback session should look like, sound like and feel like.
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| "You could read it this way or this way!" |
It was heartening that after some thoughtful listening and talking everyone decided that there was still a lot of work to do on their writing. It is always energizing to watch writers take up each other's pieces and find new life. As a no longer young person it heartening to know that these kinds of conversations will continue in the world that our students make after we are gone.
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