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The Box

AIM

• To explore the perceptions of guilt and innocence.
• To explore the use of space.

STIMULUS

ACTIVITY

• Ask the question what happens next?(5mins)
• Find a space of your own. After 3 freeze frame finding the box.
• .All freeze frame being caught finding the box.
• Now freeze frame being caught, but this time you feel guilty.
• This time you are caught, and accused, but you are innocent.
• Half the group sit down to watch the other half. Vice versa. Use all of the space. Add music. (10 mins)
• Discussion and feedback. How did it feel to be innocent/guilty? What happened to our bodies? How much space did you take up?(5 mins)
• Put box in the middle of the room. Start the music. One by one arrange yourself around the box, chose guilt or innocence as your feeling. Direct this at the box. Show them. Add lighting if possible.(10 mins)

EVALUATION

A discussion about what we look like when we are guilty and innocent.

What other situations do we feel guilty and/or innocent in?

Carry on with an aspect of this work next week. (5 mins)

EXTRA ACTIVITY. (Explain task as a mime exercise.)

What other feelings do we associate with guilt?

What other feelings do we associate with innocence?

How did you feel when you were showing guilt/innocence?

Situations where we may be guilty/innocent.

Two other words, use their words.

Define the space. As they cross over the boundaries, walk showing the feeling.

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