One-off Workshop: The Attraction of Opposites

Working in collaborative groups, students develop characterisation and devising skills through exploring a situation where two people are attracted to each other while being very different in so many ways – and how their relationship might just work.

For students 

For teachers 

The teacher sets up the following situation, in groups of five or six: A is having a party with friends. Z lives nearby and gatecrashes the party. A and Z take an instant dislike to each other, more than because Z came uninvited. Create a two minute scene where the dislike is obvious.
In this relationship, A and Z may be of whatever genders students choose. They can also be of different races, cultures, heights, weights, outlooks – the more differences, the better. Natural instinct will be for the class to choose to be teenagers. However, some might be persuaded to up the age group a bit. One partner could be significantly older than the other. The teacher asks one group to share their scene.