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Workshop / ”Play-shop” / Interactive Talk
The story of the quest for the grail is one the world’s greatest myths, and it has much to tell us about leadership and about believing in ourselves. This ‘play-shop’ is designed to allow participants to learn and grow by acting out the characters in a new dramatic retelling of this ancient story, discovering for themselves the meaning through an interactive process of reading and discussion.
Narrated by the powerful sorceress Morgana, of Arthurian legend, the play follows the adventures of the young and impulsive knight, Perceval, as he travels through a wasteland kingdom of strange warriors and damsels. On his way, he meets the great King Arthur and the wise wizard Merlin, the beautiful Blanchefleur and finds himself having dinner with a sinister Wounded King in the mysterious Grail Castle. Perceval comes to learn how he has to be the change that transforms the world. When we find the grail, we find the source of our selves, our creativity, our intuition, our assurance and our authority.
Format/Staging
is flexible and can be as elaborate or as simple as participants decide: from full blown ceremonial costumed drama, to a simple read-through with breaks to for questions and discussion. All or part of the play can be acted out, and mixed with presentation and story telling by Diana, depending on the time and context. There are 12 main characters & 13 minor characters, including some non-speaking parts. It can be staged with as few as four actors/participants, or as many as 23!
Learning by Play
Play-acting at different levels, whether children playing or the many forms of role-play in psychodrama, has long been understood and explored as a highly creative developmental and therapeutic activity. And more recently it is becoming recognized as an effective tool for leadership development as the theater arts are proving to be a means by which people are freed up to learn in ways that engage and excite them, and which can help them acquire new confidence and life skills. By reading/performing/staging/witnessing and then discussing this play, participants are involved in a number of different ways and levels. They are learning to express and use their voices and bodies to project a character, they are participating in literature, they are learning about an ancient myth, they are deciphering the systemic nature of symbolic language, they are going through the journey of the quest and figuring out - both cognitively and experientially - its life-enhancing message.
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