What Is Your Preferred Role? The Act of Living (3/30)
We are all talking about authenticity but do you talk the same way to your boss as to your kid?
Of course not.
And that's perfectly OK.
Different situations require different roles.
All these different roles are a part of us, but we have our preferred ones. Being able to explore, further develop and pull out the right one at the right moment is a powerful skill and theatre is the right tool for it.
I remember during one of our workshops a woman who was rather shy and submissive. That was her preferred role to play but we wanted her to develop her more assertive side. So we started to put her into improvisational scenes that pushed her to defend herself. First she was playing a feminist activist, and men were ridiculing her. She didn't defend herself.
In the next scene she was at her own apartment and an actor was molesting her. She was at the point of running away from her own apartment but at the point she was holding the doorknob, she turned around, jumped on the sofa and turned into the most assertive almost wild woman I've ever seen. It was beautiful. She finally stood up for herself. And even though it was only a scene we played I'm 100% sure that this experience is engraved in her memory and will help her to trigger this assertive role more often in her life.
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