Aims of the Documentary Theatre workshop

This Documentary Theatre workshop aims to introduce students to key principles around storytelling and story consumption. Using newspapers as a source material, we will consider how stories are made and shared, and how we make the information we share interesting. It will look at how we turn narratives into performance, and how our engagement with the world, our lived experience, and our surroundings, can align with and be informed by the broader political landscape, aiding students to consider what their future interests and opportunities might be and what skills and knowledge can be gained to make that possible.

Learning Outcomes:

In this workshop, students will:

• Learn how to read and critically consider key topics that are part of our own lived environment. 
• Learn how to create pieces of performance from newspaper reports
• Learn how Bertolt Brecht’s practice of working with and alienating the audience is replicated in newspapers and can help us to think about how information is shared to and from us.

Materials needed:

• Newspaper game – please see resources list
• Newspapers
• Paper
• Pen