S4 Drama Workshops 2021-22

In November and February, the school arranged a series of workshops for us in a bid to deepen our understanding of the book, The Alchemist.

In the first workshop, we had some experienced native English-speaking drama tutors from a professional drama house to provide us with interactive activities. It was intended to give us a clearer comprehension of the characters in the book. They conducted a role play activity for us. We put ourselves into the shoes of the characters, understood their feelings and actions and participated in the workshop as if we were really the characters. Look at our weird movements in class!

In the second workshop, it was conducted on Zoom due to the face-to-face class suspension during the fifth Covid wave. It would be a complete misconception if you think that we just sat and listened to the tutors like a lecture that day, they actually did a fun warm-up exercise with us. All of us were required to stand up and shake our hands in front of the cameras! That was such a breath of fresh air for us! We also reviewed the dialogues between the characters to figure out their corresponding characterization and features. At the end, we did a presentation on Zoom. What a challenging task for us!

As one of the participants in the event, I thoroughly enjoyed what the tutors prepared for us. We also benefited a great deal from the workshops. We learnt how to express characters’ emotions through actions and dialogues, and hence, improved my verbal and non-verbal communication skills. We are particularly grateful that even if it is more challenging to teach online now, the tutors, still, did not fail us and gave us an interesting workshop on Zoom.

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