Applied Drama & Impro Workshops
Signature Workshop 1:
Coping with Racism through Humour
This is not just a comedy class. It is a space where laughter becomes a tool for resilience, solidarity and healing — and where your experience of racism is taken seriously, even when we are laughing about it.
An applied theatre workshop using impro and drama therapy-informed drama techniques as tools for processing and healing from experiences of racism. Drawing on Mona's counselling training, her academic research into humour and racism, and her extensive impro practice, these sessions offer a methodology that is distinctly her own — sitting in the same tradition as playback theatre and forum theatre, but rooted in Mona's unique combination of comedic performance, artistic research, and therapeutic practice.
What Participants say:
"I really like impro now." — Teanna, 16.
"An unserious way to deal with something serious — but in a good way." — Yazmin, 18.
"The words 'you can't do it' were not in her dictionary." — Young Person, 17.
Photo creditS: Renaissance Foundation, London, UK.
Drawing on impro comedy techniques and informed by over two decades of diversity counselling, academic research into humour and racism, and training with internationally recognised and pioneering improvisers and community builders — including John Gebretatose of Good Camel Comedy Theatre and Ashawnti Sakina Ford of Blackout Impro, (USA) and Oluwadamilola Apotieri-Abdulai of Access to Play (Nigeria) — these sessions create a space that is simultaneously funny, safe and genuinely transformative.
Available for:
• Community organisations
• Educational institutions
• Healthcare providers
• Corporate diversity and inclusion programmes
• Arts and cultural organisations• Community organisations
• Educational institutions
• Healthcare providers
• Corporate diversity and inclusion programmes
• Arts and cultural organisations
Delivered in English or Norwegian. Some workshops available in (Egyptian) Arabic upon request.
Get in touch
To book shows, workshops, or other inquiries:
Email: info@drdaffodil.com
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