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Article: Using improvisational theater to deal with growing pains.(Grades 4-12)(Brief Article)
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- Curriculum Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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A nonprofit improvisational theater troupe called Urban Improv runs workshops for some 6,000 at-risk students in Boston every year, focusing on difficult issues such as bullying, peer pressure, violence, substance abuse and teen pregnancy, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
The troupe draws students into role-playing scenarios to help them work through common adolescent problems and come up with fresh strategies for coping with them. The adult actors will kick off a scene during an assembly and then freeze it, inviting students to step into their roles and resolve the conflicts they've created on stage.
One recent scenario challenged fourth- and ...