Playmaking Project: Leadership and Teamwork

In 2018, I was given the amazing opportunity to be apart of a radio performance based off of the lives of Amana Living residents. Throughout this project we had to display constant leadership and team working abilities to really make our efforts be shown on the day, teamwork was especially shown when we took an excursion to Amana Living to conduct interviews with the residents about their lives, during this we had to rely on each other to get the correct information, before then spending time with them reading and doing other activities over morning tea. The information we collected from the interviews was then implemented into our development process which we worked on as a team to create a script and block out the acting in the scenes, giving constructive criticism to each other so we could improve. Everyone shared their thoughts and ideas so we all had a piece of the performance we could really call our own, which made particular scenes feel special to everyone there. For example the character I played was a girl during the war time, who would slip her address into the pockets of the soldiers she was preparing clothes for. I played this scene with my friend as my supporting actor, so we both worked hard and had a lot of fun in between, which is why I remember that scene more vividly and fondly then my other ones and as a team we were pretty impressive. Leadership was then used when I would take charge on a certain scene and suggest things we could improve or remove, I was also a main character in some skits and therefore had to take charge so the scene could move along, and making sure I remembered all my lines and improvised whenever lines were forgotten was also incredibly important during this process. All together, I genuinely enjoyed the experience and would jump to do other performances of a similar types, as it was constructive and something I learned from.