In my previous post, I tried to make a clear understanding about street theater & at the end of the discussion; I supposed to involve students for greater effectiveness. Now, my objective is to explain the way to involve students in order to achieve greater awareness.
We may first take a look on the traditional procedure/steps taken to make it happen. Though street theater is not a huge effort, we can divide it in the following steps (for the convenience of my discussion):
1. Agreement with an local professional group,
2. Providing an outline - specially about the focal issue & messages to be delivered,
3. Preparing & finalizing the script after review,
4. Selecting the persons to perform followed by rehearsal,
5. Selection of time & place and announcement accordingly &
6. Finally the performance.
If we try to search ways to involve students in the above steps, we can at best involve in step 3 & 4. The way to involve in step 3 is nothing but to prepare the script which might be reviewed by the implementing group & organization. Where, giving them a chance to perform a specific role in the theater.
My view is Involving in preparing script would be much easier. I would propose to prepare the script through a competition among the student where winner of the competition will be given a prize. The benefits, we can expect, are as follows:
1. The competition will motivate them to do the best,
2. The prize, as recognition of performance, will drive them toward gathering enough knowledge about the specific issues as the pre-requisite of better performance,
3. Usually, students are not from a small village, rather from scattered area which will help to the dissemination of information of that event all around,
4. Finally, they will attend the theater willingly.
You may argue that it will increase the cost to give prizes. But I will say not the prizes but Prize. In our country context, we should be able to make it possible with very negligible amount. As, students’ focus would be upon winning rather getting valuables.
We may first take a look on the traditional procedure/steps taken to make it happen. Though street theater is not a huge effort, we can divide it in the following steps (for the convenience of my discussion):
1. Agreement with an local professional group,
2. Providing an outline - specially about the focal issue & messages to be delivered,
3. Preparing & finalizing the script after review,
4. Selecting the persons to perform followed by rehearsal,
5. Selection of time & place and announcement accordingly &
6. Finally the performance.
If we try to search ways to involve students in the above steps, we can at best involve in step 3 & 4. The way to involve in step 3 is nothing but to prepare the script which might be reviewed by the implementing group & organization. Where, giving them a chance to perform a specific role in the theater.
My view is Involving in preparing script would be much easier. I would propose to prepare the script through a competition among the student where winner of the competition will be given a prize. The benefits, we can expect, are as follows:
1. The competition will motivate them to do the best,
2. The prize, as recognition of performance, will drive them toward gathering enough knowledge about the specific issues as the pre-requisite of better performance,
3. Usually, students are not from a small village, rather from scattered area which will help to the dissemination of information of that event all around,
4. Finally, they will attend the theater willingly.
You may argue that it will increase the cost to give prizes. But I will say not the prizes but Prize. In our country context, we should be able to make it possible with very negligible amount. As, students’ focus would be upon winning rather getting valuables.
