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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Pecking Order

We played an interesting card game today...at school :)

Only one suite of cards was used (actually the suite does not matter) and Ace was eliminated too. So cards from 2 to K were used - 2 being the lowest and K the highest.

Each of us wore a head band to hold a card - the owner did not know which card was on our forehead; but others could see; also they could not say it out. The objective was to interact amongst others, treat individuals according to the card on their forehead and in the end we had to find out what was the card that was placed on our forehead.

We played this to understand status and how it can be effectively used when acting. Our instructor sneaked the Joker and it turned out to be pretty interesting round. The point he made was that with comedy/jokes one can level out the status or its difference. He drew connections to how in medieval ages the jester was the one who could freely express opinion to the kind and still manage to be alive!!

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