3rd June Finally Forum Theatre!!

Finally forum theatre!
Its taken a hell of a lot of rehearsal, explaining, battling with a director who has a very different opinion of what directing is, but finally we are working on a piece of drama that fits the forum theatre model!!
I have many notes in my book from rehearsals studying the group dynamics, peoples interactions and the development of drama and ideas. It would bore most people to death so it shall remain in my notebook and not make it to this blog.
After some dicussion of the other two plays that have been developed in the last rehearsal a conclusion was made that a third should be put togeather. I stressed that I personally would like to us the forum theatre model that the orginal drama group was setup to use (before sort of being hijacked ). Here is where an interesting thing happened. One of the group had to clarify what I said to the "director", when he asked the director if he knew about forum theatre, the director said yes which I think was a lie but he said that he did because of the challenge of status from the this group member and myself. This is intresting because all along he has resisted the forum theatre model bus as soon as his status was challenged he gave into using it….I'm not really bothered if that’s what it takes to use it, the whole group wants a interactive piece and that’s what forum theatre will give.
So the play entitled "Innocent's story" which uses the forum theatre model was developed. The story of a girl in school who is pushed into having sex at an early age due to peer pressure, then as a result gets pregnant. I know it sounds a cliché but the group said this really is a big issue, it happens a lot and they want the issue addressed. Isn't forum theatre perfect for triggering such debate!!