Day 4 at the Theatre of the Oppressed Festival

The posts are getting shorter, I know, but I am trying to make good my promise to Ana Braconnier (one of the organisers of the festival) before the year gets under way and while all the attendees are still reading the Festival blog.

I will just cover the warm up games, coz really, at this stage the workshop consisted of honing the piece of theatre we were preparing to perform in front our fellow workshoppers:

1. We pretended to try and catch a fly, passing it on to the person next to us, going round and round in a circle. 
2. We did a collective primal scream. 
3. The first person in the circle clapped and passed on the clap to the person next to their neighbour, while their neighbour crouched, the neighbour would then stand up and pass the clap on the person after their neighbour, and so on. 
4. We also created a tight little circle and bent our knees deeply, trying to sit on each other's laps. 
5. We ended the workshop by giving each other massages in pairs and in threes. Our facilitators called these massages washing machines, because we were meant to give massages resembling an automatic car washing machine. We scrubbed and pounded each muscle until they were completely relaxed.