Creating a Show Out of Other People's Stories

The process of hearing stories from our visitors, turning their stories into monologues, memorizing the monologues, and finally acting them out has been a wonderful experience. I have had the privilege of getting to see the story that I wrote come to life, but also the stories of the other people in class. The stories have made a journey from the lives where they came from and are now coming to life in a completely different way.

Performing my person's story makes me feel connected with them and their life, and it makes me feel connected to my classmates because they have seen the process of my memorization and characterization of the monologue. I feel as though my class and I have given the stories new meaning and new life by rewriting and performing them for each other and the person they came from. I am excited to see how the performance goes when we do it for real.