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CHAPTER FIVE: DATA ANALYSIS Out of the 24 of the most important or the most exciting parts of the drama lessons 17 were improvisations, this is 7196 of responses. Ihe high ratio shows that participants experienced improvisation and being in situations as the defining components of these lessons. I will look at some of the moments mentioned above to examine the acting behaviour of the participants. For the third lesson of The Tribe the participants were offered a new role of extremely talented American high school students who won the possibility of a vacation on the island which used to belong to the tribe but had become a tourist resort. The group improvisation, referred to as ‘meeting by the rock’ in the chart, was a secret meeting with a youth from the tribe who asked them to help in getting the truth about the island out by taking a notebook back with them to America. The story continued with a pair improvisation where one of the American students, Bath, was interrogated by their adult team leader, a role played by me. These are the two situations that were marked as the most important and exciting by participants in the questionnaire. According to the teachers"?! the boy who was being interrogated in the role of Bath had a very disturbed life in which he faces similar situations of interrogation, they thought he was using his everyday skills to get through such situations. Ihe participant said the following about the situation when I asked him privately what it was like for him: P: It was very good to play it. I would do it again. T: What was this situation about? P: Ihey were interrogating me. When they interrogate me I usually giggle. T: There were long silences. What were you thinking about? P: I was trying to distract you, so you dont realise that I know something. T: Can you compare how you felt in this situation to something. Have you felt like this before, in any other situation? d P: When I did something naughty with my brother and Participant after 635 my grandma asked us. We said it wasnt us. improvisation The situation was clearly tense, this became clearly visible from how the boy let go and relaxed when the situation ended, as can be seen from his posture on the screenshot." It is interesting that the participant said he was trying 634 CTR D. 635 ASI D. 636 V3 D3. + 190
