Theater for young people with autism is popular in the region

Theater classes where young people with autism learn to improvise are a great success in Eindhoven. Through the lessons, participants learn to engage in conversations more easily, respond more spontaneously and improve their social skills.

Three girls are participating in the program this weekend. On stage they do an improvisation exercise: they have to portray professions. Tarja gets the assignment to portray a construction worker without thinking time. “I can’t get this thing to work!” she shouts angrily as she plays that she is on a construction machine. Then the teacher calls for her to play a construction worker who feels the emotion “joy. The mood immediately turns. “He’s working again!” exclaims Tarja happily after a few seconds. The audience laughs.

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