At the end of one of our sessions our clients began sharing some personal stories about how they got into crime and their families. We decided to develop some of the stories into pieces of theatre. Many of them weren't comfortable with sharing their stories so they will help to tell others. We began working on one of the stories which was the tale of a boys brother being killed in a fight, which ended with him getting shot. It is easy to get him to talk about the story but getting him to focus in enough to create some interesting work is difficult.
We decided to tell the stories with 5 of us sitting on chairs. We all represented characters in the story. We had the boy, his girlfriend, his brother, his brothers girlfriend, his mum and the guy who shot him. I thought this was a good idea because the story was powerful not, i felt it could take away from the story if we were to act it out. We created movement and sounds to enhance the stories and re create the conversations he had with people that day. Rosie will also be writing a piece on fate and choices, which will link it to the message of the story.
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