Mayors, and workers, and players…oh my!
How appropriate that the NBM festival theme that year was play. I created a toolkit to help facilitate dramatic play using the playhouse as a backdrop. We had to put it to the test and what willing participants we had!
An amazing theater educator, Daniel, joined us to elicit different storylines at the top of every hour. Participants picked characters, emotions, and events from the card decks and got their time in the spotlight to act out fun/funny scenes that developed.
The backdrop (playhouse storefront) changed with each storyline. Between stories, we invite everyone inside to see the store in action.
Never the same story twice.