It's Only WordsMask & Physical Theatre dual facilitated performance and workshops It's Only Words supports the 2011 Anti Bullying Alliance theme of verbal bullying: "stop and think - words can hurt".
Jo and Robin are great friends. They both love computer games, especially the one where they play space troopers and defeat the rebel aliens. But Robin in particular begins to talk to other pupils in the same way he does to the enemy aliens - as if they had no feelings. Jo realizes it's not right but doesn't think it's so bad and she feels drawn into her friend's behaviour.Then Jo dreams that she has become part of the computer game. She is a rebel alien and, forced to defend herself against Robin's trooper, discovers that his true weapons are his words and that they really do hurt. She tries to fight back with hurtful words of her own, but victory only comes when she learns to use words, not as weapons, but as powerful tools to both defend herself and others around her and to find solutions to the problems raised in the game. Workshops Follow on workshop will explore the issues raised by the performance and provide a stimulus for further work within school. Workshops can be dual or single facilitated, offering the choice of a particular intense pupil experience and of a level of pupil interactivity, or a wider pupil reach. Suitable for Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2 Curriculum This piece supports the Citizenship and PSHE curricula. It can also be used to support the English curriculum as a vehicle for the development of pupil ability to research and debate these vitally important issues, as well as providing an exercise for practicing persuasive literature. Return from
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