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Acting workshop in Gro\u00df Hesepe<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Our vocational trainees, participants in a drama workshop, had three days – from Tuesday to Thursday – to work on a play. As they had to premiere their production on the Friday, the clock was ticking. Their venue was the new lecture theatre in Gro\u00df Hesepe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stamping their feet, clad in yellow rubber boots, and forming a caravan, our vocational trainees enter the stage. They make a circle, each individual either sideways on to, or with their backs to, the audience. This conveys that the cast are a close-knit group. They move rhythmically to a recording of the Nancy Sinatra song \u2018These boots are made for walkin\u2019\u2019, until the music abruptly stops and the trainees, cursing, go their own separate ways.<\/p>\n

The rubber boots are something of a recurring theme in this production, functioning as \u2018teleportation shoes\u2019 for golfers, the \u2018Vasomat\u2019 sensor for house plants and the \u2018Multitool\u2019 device at a festival. Our trainees demonstrate how versatile a pair of yellow wellies can be and their advertisements are smart, humorous and ironic, as evidenced by the fact that the Multitool can be used for cooling drinks, heating up food or\u00a0\u2011 who\u2019d have thought it?\u00a0\u2011 keeping one\u2019s feet dry in the rain (unlike flipflops)! \u2018Multitool\u00a0\u2011 means your beer is always cool\u2019, \u2018Multitool\u00a0\u2011 means your feet need never be cool\u2019 and \u2018Multitool\u00a0\u2011 means you\u2019re always cool\u2019\u00a0\u2011 with slogans and self-satisfied smiles, the trainees extol the virtues of this miracle footwear.<\/p>\n

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With a commercial parodying the stereotypes of advertising aimed at the housewife market, our trainees get the audience enthusiastic about the \u2018Vasomat 300 +\u2019. Lorena Ahrens plays the despairing Hausfrau<\/em>, convincingly morose and shame-faced as she admits her house plants have died on her again. Naturally, however, her stylish friend (Sabrina Walker) knows what to do: \u201cI\u2019ve got just what you need \u2013 the Vasomat!\u201d The pithy but catchy slogan \u201cRed means it\u2019s barely alive, green means it\u2019s going to thrive\u201d is repeated with hoots of laughter by many members of the audience after the play.<\/p>\n

Just wellies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading between the lines, it becomes clear that the boots also have a wider symbolic meaning. After all, the experiences of a vocational trainee may include shaking in one\u2019s boots (at first), and maybe even occasionally feeling like the rug has been pulled out from under one\u2019s feet. Not to mention putting one\u2019s best foot forward and the daily task of booting up one\u2019s computer \u2026<\/p>\n

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And acting, of course, means stepping into someone else\u2019s shoes, which they all do convincingly. It is obvious that the end of the play will be met with thunderous applause for our trainees, as the audience have enjoyed themselves tremendously. The talented young cast not only impress the theatregoers by virtue of having put on a play after only three days\u00a0\u2011 quite a feat \u2011 but with their expressive use of their bodies, voices and music, their humour and their knack for parody.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trainees really did do everything themselves, from writing the script to the staging,\u201d said drama teacher Liane Kirchhoff of Osnabr\u00fcck-based educational drama provider \u2018theaterp\u00e4dagogische werkstatt gGmbH\u2019<\/a> after the public performance. \u201cAll we did was provide them with some guidance and the tools they needed.\u201d The basics of stage acting, ways of being aesthetically creative, the use of one\u2019s body, breathing and voice, and developing characters\u00a0\u2011 these were just some of the aspects that the two drama educators Liane Kirchhoff and Michael Walter Schroth covered with the trainees. \u201cPutting this on in such a short time was quite an achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personality development<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with our editorial staff, the participants revealed that the four days of the workshop and performance had been a real challenge. \u201cIt was fantastic fun, but we were exhausted every evening,\u201d says Business Informatics student Jakob Schoofs. \u201cI think the reason was that we had an incredible amount to process.\u201d It was the drama exercises that he found most stimulating: improvisation, concentration and being aware of one\u2019s fellow actors. Has eye contact been established? What is the other person\u2019s posture telling me? These things are useful in everyday life as well.<\/p>\n

Sabrina Walker also feels there are real-world applications: \u201cFor example, I now have a whole new awareness of the effect of my personal demeanour on others.\u201d The workshop was also a good opportunity for everyone to get to know the trainees at the location other than where they themselves were based. \u201cThe biggest challenge came on the first day. We were instructed to laugh, cry, scream and get angry on cue\u00a0\u2011 in front of people, some of whom I\u2019d never met. After we\u2019d all got acquainted with each other, this made the other days easier. We grew in confidence and everyone contributed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our Training Manager Andrea Bruns explains the rationale for including the drama workshop as part of the training plan: \u201cTraining is not only the dissemination of know-how, but also personality development.\u201d She feels the output really is to be applauded in every sense: \u201cDuring the workshop, the trainees got to know each other well and grew into a team\u00a0\u2011 regardless of what they\u2019re training to become and where they\u2019re doing it. Together they developed scenes that they presented to a sizeable audience on the final day. During this process they were creative, invested great collective effort in the outcome and showed perseverance. And, importantly, they experienced shared success and can be proud of what they offered up\u00a0\u2011 a good foundation for greater self-confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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