Exploring European Cultural and Language Variety t..
Exploring European Cultural and Language Variety through Comedy
Five European schools explored European culture through staging national and original comedies.Each partner translated and performed four national comedic stories into English. Every school dramatized one of its national stories during each meeting’s “Evening of European Comedy”. Drama has the power to make culture come alive. Through watching the partners’ performances, the audience faced the culture of the represented country and saw the morals, traditions, history, typical costumes, customs, unique humor, music and the speech of the characters which represent that country. During each meeting, the host partner taught the guests one national tradition, one dance and one modern song at their language. A contest for creation of original comedy in English language was held .Five original comedies were created by the partners’ schools and performed at the last meeting .The partners’ teams then chose the best original project comedy via voting. An original comedy play was written especially for our project and performed by an international team from the partner schools. Two e-books –“20 national European comedies”, presenting the national comedies and “Comedy? Let’s create it!”, presenting the partners original comedies, were published on the project web page. The printed copies of the books can be found in the local libraries. This project promoted also the European language variety. The Friendship Dictionary was created in the five partner languages. The DVD with all performances together with the project books can be used in the future education in English language and also as an example of successful cultural dialogue between different European nations. This project broaden participants’ minds by travelling to new destinations and experiencing the culture of five different countries By participating in drama performances participants discovered new and stronger sides of their personalities. They received positive experience which will last for their entire lives.
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