exercise · all tools
The Bartender
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
The audience is asked to name a personal problem. A scene then plays out to music in which somebody unburdens themselves about that problem to a bartender in a pub — sung, improvised. The bartender answers by improvising a different song to different music.
Hold with care
- The problem comes from the audience and the source says personal — whoever offers one has disclosed something, and it is then performed back at them as a song
- How exposing this is depends entirely on what gets offered and whether the room treats it gently; a leader who does not frame that beforehand is leaving it to chance
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · pairs
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Two contrasting pieces of music
- Mechanisms
- emotional-processing, creative-expression, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- xn--dramavningar-8ib.se/bartendern — 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