An ‘unknown’ play…

This time, I will make a reflection on one of the most exciting activity that being handled during lecture. I like to call this activity as ‘an unknown play’, because we have to act out the play that we don’t know how many characters are involved, where is the setting taking place and overall, we just know the language but not the content of the text. The text that we are required to read is one of the abstract, taken from ‘Now Read On’ and it is sort of short dialogue.
Our respective lecturer has divided us into pair or three in a group and asked us to read the text. He gave us sometimes. After that he told us that we have to act it out, create the situation for the dialogue based on our own creativity. My partner for this activity was Hazelynn. We have (me and Hazelynn) make a discussion and we have create our own situation. It was happened between husband and wife in the study room. But, unfortunately for us, because we don’t have the chance to perform our play, just keep it as a precious experience. I was so excited with this activity, because I was never expect that some of my course mates have a talent in acting. They are very talented and they have make the activity becomes very interesting. Besides, I was also interested with Dr Edwin’s experience with my seniors. They all were using the same text like us, but they managed to create situation which was totally out of my thinking. One of them acts out the dialogue, not as a human, but as a chicken. We have had a big laugh as we listen to the story.
So, I think the activity is not just entertaining, but informative as well.