Tricksters

Who is the trickster?

Trickster Traits

• Rule breakers, Shape-changers (metaphor)
• Challenges ideals
• Childish, nasty, greed, villain
• Mediator, traveller, teacher

Role

• Creator & Destroyer
• Moral teachers
• Questioner
• Boundary-crosser

Raven stole the sun

Types of Humour

• Slapstick
• Anecdotal
• Blue
• Dark
• Farcical
• Irony & Satire

Do Aussie’s have a sense of humour?

• Role Play this afternoon
• I need some actors.
• Byron = fake mad
• Students who can play it with a straight face.
• Support actors too

Discussion about Much Ado
How the Trickster: points out the flaws in characters, acts as a mediator, creates and destroys