Write Play-act Reflect

Today we had a great 3 hour session with the full team present. The session was divided into three parts. 

1. We wrote a 5 min play and performed it in front of the audience.
2. Discussed our individual storyline, commented on other plays performed by peers. This was followed by an intense 40 minute self-reflective session on how the participants evaluate their own works and others'. 
3. We had a very important session on how to develop your dialogue. Playwrights call this task the Quantum Mechanics of Playwriting. We had a question-answer session on how to sharpen your dialogue based on the emotional response it will create on the other characters. 
4. We witnessed a two-way dialogue development by two improvisation scenes. In the first exchange, two participants were asked to engage in an angry and hostile verbal exchange. They were at first a shy. But afterwards, when asked to use any slang or swearing, they really opened up and the scene became more energetic.