ETA, Education Through Acting, refers to the process of writing a play script and rehearsing it to prepare a theatrical show or musical plays.

scripts to produce plays or musicals through dialogue and discussion, a part of acting, and it is a dual education system in which educational effects are achieved to participants and audiences through artistic empathy of watching performances.

Discussion basically improves critical thinking skills, improves data research skills, improves the composition and arrangement of logic, and enhances verbal communication skills.

Theater practice is not just a play. It leads to a deeper understanding through direct and indirect experiences at the same time, and as this process proceeds, a strong self-discipline process follows, and at the same time, it becomes the best social education or retraining method.

Through this, the ETA system expects a positive future through education.

The effectiveness of ETA system is evident above all in social education or re-education.

At the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabitation Center in Cebu, Philippines, all inmates participate for several months to practice group dance to music and open it to the public. In most cases, it is a very positive thing that there is something to focus on and do for them, who spend their free days waiting for the day they return to their prison terms. However, this work is not interactive, but is unilaterally required and there is a limitation in that it must be followed. The problem is that it does not develop by itself through exchanges with others, but that it must passively perform the demands. This is not much different from cramming education.

What if we produced a musical instead of a dance?
What if 10 inmates spend three hours a day discussing and writing musical scripts based on that, and composers, choreographers, and designers from the inmates practicing together, producing a stage, and presenting it as a performance? What if it lasted six months?
During that long period of six months, the participants’ discussions cannot be simple. The simple and superficial story ends with one or two meetings, and a lot of stories take place over the long period of time after that. The discussion expands beyond what you know by telling all the stories that you can tell, beyond your own experience and knowledge, to imagination or creation. This discussion is bound to take place seriously, and the responsibility of creating art is also erased here, and as the practice proceeds with maximum immersion and seriousness, the participants turn around and discover themselves without realizing it. After a long period of six months, they have no choice but to be reborn as social humans. Other inmates or outsiders who watch the performance are also educated through the process of artistic empathy.

ETA is an efficient social education or retraining system that can change and positively lead both participants and audiences while creating and performing high-quality works through serious artistic work rather than easy and simple play.

10 KEY ADVANTAGES

1 Director is a theater expert. Especially when it comes to foreign language education, he is a native speaker and a theater artist at the same time.

The director is a native speaker, especially when it comes to foreign language education. In particular, since he has experience in writing and directing many works, he is a person who has the ability to direct high-quality performances by inducing the entire process without difficulty.

2 Debate within 1:10

A team is limited to one director and no more than 10 participants. Therefore, discussions are possible while sufficiently exchanging opinions. Correction can be obtained, especially for language. Correction is essential in a foreign language.

3 more effective than 1:1

The ETA system is much more effective than 1:1 discussions. In particular, 1:1 discussions have something in common to share with each other and require in-depth knowledge for discussion. Moreover, 1:1 discussions are too much of a burden on each.

4 ETA is a real education

Education requires a certain degree of continuity and a slightly higher level of knowledge than you know. This is because discussions can deepen and learn from each other. Discussions that lack continuity also break the flow along the way and are ineffective. You should maintain continuity by gathering and discussing every day or every 2-3 days as much as possible.

5 Self-improvement

Through discussion, each participant can realize self-development first. This is made possible through voluntary discussion, and you can complete yourself more by actively thinking, expressing, and acting on your own.

6 No restrictions

There are no restrictions on ETA. For example, there are no restrictions on the content or plot of a given topic before the discussion. Each participant develops a story they want to unravel through discussion purely from their own ethical point of view.

7 Being Fun

ETA is fun. How much fun is it to just meet up and have a discussion? And the next step is acting, how fun is it to just sit down and read the script and act yourself and become something other than me indirectly?

8 Becoming an artist

ETA participants are reborn as artists. The ETA process is not just a list of meaningless sounds. It is a way to make meaningful thoughts into actions and share them with others, that is, to educate oneself and others as well in the process through creation of works of art.

9 You can make money

All works produced through ETA are included in copyright. Even if there is no legal device, everything we create is automatically copyrighted. If the script or performance can be sold, the benefit will go to the participants.

10 No money needed

All activities ask money, but there is no money requirement to go through ETA process.