Video: Modern Slavery

 

 

 

 

DRAMA (pantomime/video - January 2013)

Intro

 

 

The Human Rights Violation, we fear, most is Modern Slavery.

 

 

Like the African slaves in America, modern workers and job-seekers are most likely to be treated like tradable objects: work à la carte, no employment contracts, no salary, no insurance, trafficking and unemployment; perhaps even having to work to pay off bank loans.

Who will save us?

 

 

Script

 

 

1. A number of pupils stand to be the slaves, wearing scruffy clothes and having their hands tied with a rope.
2. They are led by a slave trader, who is wearing a hat.
3. Next to them there is a table where two gentlemen are seated, dress formally. They are the slave purchasers.
4. The slave purchasers stand up and examine the slaves holding bags of money. They pay the slave trader.
5. A crowd of people enter holding a poster with the word FREEDOM.

 

 

Characters

 

• Slaves
• Slave traderSlave purchasers
• People

 

 

Props

• A rope
• 2 posters (slave trade & freedom)
• A desk with 2 chairs

 

 

 

 

Comenius Project: Human Rights in Europe

Work: DRAMA (Pantomime/video) for Comenius meeting in Valence France

in February 6^th – February 12^th, 2013

 

 

 

Participants – pupils of 3^rd Upper Secondary school “Miltos Kountouras”

 

 

Slaves

Abatzoglou Peter, class A

Sarantakis Dionysis, class A

Stavrianidis Vassilis, class B

Vallidis Nikitas, class B

Ioannidis Charis, class B

Kapsi Konstantina, class A

Slave trader

Kaloussis Vassilis, class B

Slave purchasers

Georgantopoulos Giorgos, class B

Vamvakidis Giannis, class A

Freedom girls

Stamati Popi, class B

Tsichrigi Vassiliki, class B

Mantaga Katerina, class A

Freedom boy

Kitsos Dimitris, class B

Narrator & co-operators

Qesko Zoe, class C

Michou Christina, clacc C

Louka Rafaela, class B

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Teachers

Mike Sarikos: scenario, script

Stavriana Soubassi: intro, comments, video recording

Katerina Fyssaki: Video editing

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Music

•      Paul McCartney – Freedom
•      Respira, video by Spanish CGT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-H_KssDdk )

 

 

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