Excellent day today, which was better than I expected. I spent the day with R at a local theatre doing a workshop. I have done a couple up there now and I have found them to be quite long days. This time I requested that we could use the stage, and that the parents came back early to watch a performance. The recent project at the lower school has awakened a beast in me I think. The idea of devising theatre with young people has really got my creative blood up, and I decided to take on a five and a half hour workshop with a concept in mind and no real session plan. You will imagine, that this did add a frision of nervousness to the proceedings. In the event I needn't have worried. They were superb. We had eighteen kids, most of which were eight and nine year olds. I have been asked to do some transition work at some after school clubs soon on the subject of bullying. I decided to use this workshop as a dry run in effect. I did take along a poem on the subject and some pre prepared music, and this acted as a stimulus for the whole session. Some of the work they produced was stunning, mature and very moving. I think they were surprised with the standard they were able to produce. It has given me the courage to continue more down this path, and I really hope I can keep it going. In many ways it is harder to do, but the rewards are much higher I think.
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