--- In patientvoices@yahoogroups.com, "jhcoleman" <julie@...> wrote:
>
> --- In patientvoices@yahoogroups.com, "amyzoltan" <hilarypegg@>
wrote:
> >
> > I have just found patients voices through CSIP East. My interest
in
> > them is actually as inspiration in a workshop for live
performance. I
> > am a mental health service user involved in mental health in
Higher
> > Education (MHHE) and would like to show a mental health story to
> > encourage script writing for reader's theatre. They are of course
> > powerful as they are and could be used directly with students. I
> > watched a mental health one where a user tells her story about
her
> > sister who took her own life.
> >
>
>
> I found the experience of making the digital story very powerful and
> deeply healing, I would be interested to hear how you would use
> digital stories to encourage script writing.
> Best wishes to you, (it was my story you saw)
> Julie
>
Dear Julie
It was a very powerful story and the song added to it. I half
wondered if it could be written down as two speakers and after seeing
the digital version, two actors could speak you and your sister and
her voice would disappear. It would just be a way of telling your
story as a drama. Another thing to do would be just to show it as it
is on computer in a workshop and people could go on to write their
own stories. Scripts could be monologues or dualogues or you could
have several speakers. On reflection it would be a shame to change
your story. I think I would just show it as a stimulus to script
writing.

Best wishes

Hilary