User:Ssstephen/dollhouse

its an ethnographic performance tool

make dolls

what do they look like?

what can you do with them? just move them around or something more?

organise play session

one person?

a group?

in person or online?

students or recent graduates maybe

how to record the play

if its online video record?

audio recording of the conversation? but what are they doing with the dolls, not enough.

instructions

Welcome, thanks for coming today to take part in this little theatre. As you can see there are 11 seats for the audience, that's you, and the actors are here on the stage let me introduce them: Soup, PC, and Chicken. And this is also Chicken but they're here for reasons too complicated to explain right now. There are two more people we will need for this play, I'm going to ask two of you to volunteer as The Performer and The Narrator.

The performer will use the actors as characters in the play to re-enact a scene from their life. These actors have been specially selected to perform in this type of play: because we will be creating a play about working. There are lots of types of work: Soup has experience in domestic labour, care and gourmet - sorry Soup, experimental - cuisine. PC works in the high-paced digital economy and also manages a very popular acting memepage. Chicken is a manual labourer and respected as a master artisan in their field. They trained under Chicken, no I've said too much now.

So anyway The Performer will work with these highly skilled actors to tell a story of their own labour. But they're not allowed to speak while they do it, that's The Narrator's job. The Narrator will describe everything they see and make a nice clear story for us all to listen to. The story they tell will be recorded, anonymised, and used as part of my research project, which involves lots of things like this; using performative tools to find out about labour practices.

So does anyone want to be The Performer or The Narrator?