Role Play Scenario: The beautiful girl
Title
The beautiful girl
Author(s)/institution/country
…. /Associazione Equilibrio /Italy
Summary
Lucia has recently noticed that one of her schoolmate,Martha,is plotting something against her.in the last daysshe has seen Martha often giggle with some mates and change the subject as soon as she approached. In particular she noticed that they often laughed watching something on their mobile. Lucia had tried to ask what they were watching and theyansweredthey were watching a movie made by phone during the last school trip, but Lucy was not convinced by such an explanation. After a couple of days Lucy had found that the video shot her while she was changing her clothes the dressing room of the school gym. Lucia then tried to pick up the phone to Martha, but Martha resisted. Lucia and Martha started quarrelling and Martha said that she was going to post the video on YouTube, so that everyone could enjoy her beauty.
Two classmates who are both friends of Martha and Lucia asked both the girls to goto the mediators.
Basics
Place
Classroom, during the break.
Number of players
4
Characters and instructions for players
Name of character
Lucia
What does the character know about his/her character?
Age: / 14Background: / Lucia is the most beautiful girl of the classroom. She has grown up suddenly, and also her beauty has burnt out in the last school year; before she looked like a child and none of the boys gave her even a glance.
Even if she doesn’t wear showy clothes, all the boys of the school look at hernow and many of them have fallen in love with her. As a consequence, many of the girls have started excluding her, because they envy her beauty and they don’t accept the fact the boys have less interest on them now. Lucia is not happy with that and she would make the other girls understand she doesn’t care boys and she is not at fault for that situation.
Home situation: / Lucia lives with her parents and an older brother. Her family is serene and quite attentive to her problems, so she has told her parents the situation she’s actually living at school.
Personality traits: / She’s a sunny girl, who loves spending her time with her friends and schoolmates. She’s not interested in boys and she doesn’t like their excessive attention on her. When she feels not at ease or fears something, she gets nervous and a little bit aggressive.
She usually wears jeans and a t-shirt.
School situation: / She’s pretty good at school and she’s appreciated by her teachers.
What does the character know about other characters in this scenario?
Marta / She’s one of the girls who envy her, to such an extent that she organizes such abad tricks to put Lucia in difficulty, making Luciaangry and scared by such a behaviour.What does the character know about the situation?
It’s some month that Marta is rude to her; when she learned of the video Martha has realized, Lucia is afraid of the possible consequences of the publication of the video on YouTube.
What is the player’s role and task in this scenario
She wants to prevent Marta and Laura go on with their horrible tricks. She wants to explain them she has no fault in being so beautiful and she doesn’t care of her beauty.
A couple of school friends of Lucy and Martha who know the situation have suggested to both go to the counter of mediation to resolve the situation. Lucia is very angry but also afraid that the video be posted on Youtube and she wants that Martha did not torture any more.
What SL skills and props does the player need for playing his role?
None.
Name of character
Marta
What does the character know about his/her character?
Age: / 14Background: / Marta fell in love with Francesco, a nice and pretty boy of the school, older than her.At the beginning, it seemed he had some interest on her, but since some months he has turned all his interest to Lucia, like all the other guys, because she has become the most beautiful girl of the school. Marta envies Lucia for that and she’s convinced it’s her fault if Francesco has lost any possible interest on her. That’s the reason why she decided to lesson her, addressing her a bad trick. In fact, she made a video of Lucia while undressing in the changing room, with the aim of publishing it on YouTube.
Home situation: / She lives with her parents, who both work and often come back home late in the evening. Thus she has a lot of time to plan her revenges against the schoolmates she hates
Personality traits: / She’s quite aggressive and vindictive, she loves being at the centre of other people’s attention. She suffers because she hasn’t completely grown up and her appearance is still more similar to the one of a child, than to the appearance of a grown up girl.
School situation: / She doesn’t love studying and the teachers often complain with her for that.
What does the character know about other characters in this scenario?
Lucia / She dislikes her because she is too beautiful and she has grasped Francesco’s attentionWhat does the character know about the situation?
Every time Martha sees Lucia speaking with Francis feels very jealous. Once she agreed with Francis doing homework together in the library after school. When she went there she found Francesco sitting next to Lucy and then ran away angrily. Marta believes that Lucy pretend to be not interested in Francisandthinks that she seeks to attract the attention of boys.
In recent days Martha has spoken a lot with her friends, they have toldherthather attitude towards Lucy is unfair. She can not give all the blame only to Lucy if things do not go as desired. Above all, she can not put the video on Youtube. Marta is not convinced that Lucy is so innocent but she trusts her friends and so she agrees to try to go to the mediators.
What is the player’s role and task in this scenario
She wants Lucia to stop flirting with Francesco.
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