exercise · all tools
Insults
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★★established
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Two groups each write a list of insults. Then pairs play a plain shop scene — buying and selling, nothing else — and run it again adding an insult to the end of every line, and again repeating each insult back, outraged. The source's stated purpose is actor's resilience: the insults themselves are not interesting, what is interesting is whether anyone is actually offended.
Hold with care
- Participants write the insults themselves, so the material is whatever the group supplies — which is the risk, and a leader who does not read the lists first is not holding this
- An insult aimed at a character lands on a person when it happens to be true, and the exercise gives no way to say so mid-scene
- Not for a group with any live conflict in it, and not for one that has not agreed to this beforehand
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- 4–∞ · pairs, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- behavioral-rehearsal, emotional-processing, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- xn--dramavningar-8ib.se/forolampningar — Dramaövningar.se, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Martin Wiss (published as 'Martin' on dramaövningar.se) — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Dramaövningar.se
status: checked · added 2026-09-01