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FIRST CYCLE The Tribe The last series of this cycle centred on moving between fiction and reality, a strategy employed by Bond in his plays at times: “introducing fiction into reality is almost a definition of drama. A better definition would be: introducing reality into fiction”.°®* Besides exploring the use of objects that operate on different levels of representation I wanted to find out how a dramaturgical shift, showing things accepted as true in the story as fictional, would impact on participants. The lessons followed this narrative: The Tribe started out as a story about an isolated tribe living an agricultural life. The mythology and the way of life of the Kalaf tribe were created together with participants based on descriptions of their temple. The participants created rituals of the groups who had different tasks within the tribe, using their ritual objects. Drawing by a participant of During one of their tribe meetings the drama lesson a plane that looked very much like the Silverbird in the mythology of the tribe landed and the ‘man in sunglasses’ (teacher in role) told the villagers that their island had been bought by a company and will become a holiday resort. He offered the tribe a deal and left a copy of the contract. The second lessons continued with the tribe trying to decide what to do. Meanwhile one of the youth found a mobile phone where the plane had landed. A number of tasks were centred around the phone including pair and individual improvisations, the latter in the space of the temple where the young Kalaf took the mobile. The third lesson brought a twist in the story, with a jump in time and place; the participants were offered the role of American students who won a trip to the luxurious Kalaf island, where they were presented with a narrative of how the primitive tribe welcomed the arrival of modern life to their land. The American students used their different gadgets (iconic representations created by participants as part of role building) to document their trip, and even a secret meeting they were invited to by a Kalaf youth (teacher in role), who asked them to smuggle the book of the Kalaf’s history to America. Some members of the student group were interrogated by their adult escort to the island, because they had noticed that the group had vanished for some time. The participants were offered the possibility to create their ending to the story in groups. 584 Bond: The Cap, xl. «173 +
