Oldal 209 [209]
CHAPTER FIVE: DATA ANALYSIS
In the scene described earlier, about the romance between the volunteer
and the refugee a Bible was used by the participant playing the lady who
was disturbed in her prayer by the family quarrel. The scene’s connection
to the Centre was discussed and then it was re-worked. There was a heated
debate about the connection of religion and ‘owning your life’, which the group
worked on developing in the scene. Focus group interviewees reflected on this
moment:
P1: I found the discussion we started about religion very interesting. Whether
it opens your life or closes it down, whether it helps you see new things or not.
I found that really interesting.
P2: We could have talked much more about it, because we started talking about the
Bible, but it was about much much more. It would have been interesting to continue.‘
In the scene the lady with the Bible, played by a teenage boy, burst out in
a rage, because of the unending family quarrel between the father and
the son. The lady threw her Bible in the corner and stormed away. The boy
demonstratively picked up the Bible with his father watching and sat back
on the bench reading it, where he had sat with the girl whom he gave an
apple. The participant who chose the object and played the religious old
lady in the drama lesson reflected on the process in the focus group: “I felt
the subject of religion was really important in the drama. Thinking about it
now, I feel I played the old lady really badly. Perhaps, if I had focused more
on her then we could have brought out much more about this question”.
The boy who played the lady acted in a demonstrative mode, with huge
gestures, and this mode of acting did not change after re-working the scene.
This reflection on the mode of acting from him was in hindsight. The choice
of the Bible as a prop signalled an interest in the subject of religion of the
participant, but there is a visible change in how this participant related to the
complexity of the question. An awareness of the duality of religion referred
to above, that some people thought it helps you see new things, while other
thought the opposite, could have opened an interest to focus more on the lady
for the participant playing her. The attention of this participant moved from
his preconception of religion, portrayed in the way he first played the lady,
to the person who is religious. Though this happened in a reflective, analytic
mode, and not while ‘being’ in the situation. The use of objects offered
the possibility of bringing in a subject of interest for this participant and
the re-working of the scene using Bondian concepts and structures resulted
in a reflection on his own biases in this topic.
661 Tbid.
662 V 56A.
663 F 56A.
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