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Portrait Pictures
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Each person draws a portrait of somebody none of them recognises and builds the character they think the picture shows, presenting them by description or by playing them. Groups then stage a meeting between the characters — where, why, what happens, how it ends.
Hold with care
- Building a character from a stranger's face is an exercise in reading people from appearance; that is the skill and also the risk, and the sheet does not raise it
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Portrait photographs of people unknown to the group, prepared in advance
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, creative-expression
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- teatermila.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Porträttbilder.pdf — Teater Mila — Övningar, open
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Teater Mila, Luleå — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Teater Mila — Övningar
Related: Pictures (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31