Showing posts with label bystanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bystanders. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Duffy Theatre

We had the Duffy Book Theatre perform for us last week. It was a thought provoking show about bullying. In the show, a girl is harassed by another girl over a petty issue.

Duffy is a good friend of the bully. Despite this friendship, he does not stay as a neutral bystander. He has the courage to stand up for the bullied girl and tell the bully that he doesn't like her behaviour. He is not just going to be a bystander.

The three actors played the roles skillfully. The bullying felt real. The bullying felt horrible. The whole audience felt really bad for the bullied victim. They really empathised with her.

I hope we can all learn from this example. It is not okay to just stand back and allow bullying to happen and not try to do something about it.