TEAM BASINGSTOKE
Prince's Trust TEAM Programme - Basingstoke
6 November 2006
CHROMA team: Stuart King, Céline Saout, Lucy Shaw, Marcus Barcham-Stevens and Claire Shovelton.
The young people involved in this workshop were participants in a 12 week course run by the Princes Trust called TEAM. The aim of the course is to encourage young people to develop greater self-confidence through intensive teamwork and learn new skills that will better equip them to cope with life after formal education.
After all the warm-ups and introductions, the participants were divided into two working groups. Each group was allocated a scene from the opera, which they read aloud, each taking a different character. The participants displayed a thorough understanding of the their section of the Odyssey story and began concentrating on their own contemporary interpretation of the story. The themes and characters were discussed at length and placed in context. Each group then devised their own unique interpretation of their part of the story.
