For this project I had decided to take some of the theatre students who sit together all hours in the day and take them out of their comfort zone by sort of forcing them to talk to people they do not know in different majors and ages and act out a certain script with them.To begin this process I picked out those who always hang out together whether it be during Dhall or going out to Walmart. I had originally planned on having 7 people work through this process but in the end most were busy and so it came down to 3 of the theatre students. Each of them followed within that category of constantly hanging out within the group. Next my process included figuring out which script I wanted them to participate with. I asked Andrea if she had any suggestions that had a conflict within the script that would call for some tension but still be fun to sort of play along with the fact that both people would be uncomfortable. Right away she gave me the script "The Ketchup Bottle" and I thought it fit perfectly into the scenario. After this I had set the date up and opened it to all 7 of the people I had in mind. When the 3 people gathered with me I had handed them 2 scripts one at a time and a cup of ketchup due to me forgetting the ketchup bottle at home. I then had given each of them 3 options to choose from after they had completed the task. The first was that they could stay and have a conversation with that person about whatever they'd like. The second consisted of them doing the first and then moving on to find another person and perform the same task again. Then the third and last option was that they could walk away and they didn't have to say anything else. I believe these options would give them the idea of starting to socialize with people outside of the group of theatre kids. I met them all in front of Kenan since it is the meeting place of most majors outside of the Theatre as well as tourists and teachers.Each one found a person, 2 students and a teacher and performed the task beautifully. Then all of them to my surprise stayed after they finished and talked with the person they had rehearsed the script with and talked about how they never read it before then and other things.This was the main goal of the project and it was completed by all three! I believe this project was successful because of it. To my surprise each one of the people they had gathered were pretty good at acting out the script and using their hands to gesture and everything. I had taken footage of the three different people completing the task and I had taken a video of a reading but the video would not load on here. All in all I believe this project was quite successful and will help them branch out from the group more and so far I've seen slight changes towards that within 2 of them as they welcomed one other person to the group and hung out with that person and the persons friends separately.
