What I’ve learned from acting club about agility

I have never thought of playing in a theatre role-playing. I had just wanted to write only. And I have supposed that I was very good at writing. Just soon after my first attempt to write I had quickly realized that it was not so that easy and I was not the next Shakespeare at all. This was very the first Dunning-Kruger moment. So we had started to write iteratively. I had just prepared the first version of the text and had brought that to my friend Hasan, the director, we evaluated and improved it.

Complexity is the nature of a play. There is a plan, of course, but you should improvise and fill in the blanks. Creativity and contribution ability or willingness shape the whole play. In order to come over the possible complexity problems, there is an easy solution and rule, “Do your own part”. Take simple responsibility, don’t interfere with someone else’s task. If you try to do your own part perfect, the whole result will be perfect. Besides, take simple decisions like picking the same day and time for all rehearsals and training.

There is another discovery point. “Done is better than perfect”. In order to create, you always have a starting point but don’t wait until making it glorious. You should be ashamed of what you play first if you launch a play from scratch. The director should know where to go and steer the group.

In addition to this, if you have a competent director, trust him/her. A good director steers the group into the right direction by taking the group’s feedback.

I think what we experienced was just like agile development. It was nothing but an empirical process for us. Our director was a good product owner. Iteratively we developed our product/play.