perform students’ scripts.
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| Antonio Johnson and Claudio Raygoza perform students’ scripts. |
Writing Lives creates intergenerational partnerships between high school students, as writers, and older individuals, as storytellers. This new program draws from our successful in-school playwriting residencies and Lifestages, our unique program that creates grassroots theatre from the lives of older individuals.
We provide ten one-hour classroom sessions that culminate in a performance of students' scripts by professional actors. In the first half of the Writing Lives residency, students learn playwriting and interviewing techniques. In the remaining sessions they interview an older individual and craft a dramatic vignette honoring their storytellers' memories. In the last session, the vignettes are presented by professional actors for an invited audience of students, their senior partners, and their families. The performance is videotaped, and each student and storyteller receives a copy of the tape.
This exciting new program was pioneered at San Diego High School in the spring of 2003, and further developed at Bonita Vista High School with assistance from the County of San Diego's Aging and Independence Services.
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