1. Describe the status exercises.

What did you learn?

We did three status exercises, the first one being the "Line Of Status". In this exercise we all stood in a giant line and Andy numbered us 1-16, 1 being the person with lowest status and 16 being the person with the highest status. Also we could only talk to the person next to us. For example, I was 16, so I could only talk to the person next to me to give them an order.

However, the person next to me wouldn't do any of the orders, instead they'd then turn to the other person next to them and tell them the order, and this would go on until the order got to 1 and number 1 would be the only person who would ever do the orders given.

The next exercise we did was where Sav was sat on a chair, being the person with the highest status and the rest of us were all circulated around her and using complicity we'd go in one by one to serve her well. However she could click you dead with a snap of her fingers whenever she wanted too. 

Also, when doing this exercise we were not allowed to stand higher than her, we had to crawl, we were not allowed to talk before she spoke to us first and we were not allowed to look at her. 

The last exercise we did was scripted base. We were handed a small slip of paper with about 4-5 lines on from a play. It was about someone who had been interviewed at a work place, and the employer had found out that the person who had been interviewed had a criminal record. 

In this exercise we were put into pairs and we got to play around with status. 

For example, the employer could be the person with less status than the person who is being questioned about the criminal record, or they could both have really high status of low status etc. 

From these exercises I learnt that status can have a massive impact on the other actors, because people react differently to the way people show their status. Like when someone is acting really shy, either the other person would take advantage of that and act all big, or, they'd act more quiet so that they don't seem as threatening...