Role Playing
Vampire game
Aim: To know how it is to be oppressed
Method:Role play
Duration: Ca. 10 min.
Number of participants: Any
Description: You set up a square and instruct the participants to walk around blindfolded. One is
then made into a vampire who has the job turning them into vampires. He/she does that by
pinching them on the neck. Everyone pinched helps turn everyone else into vampires. The
blindfolded people, when pinched on the neck must shout, and then keep away the blindfold and
become themselves vampires- passing from oppressed to oppressors.
The game must have a slow rhythm, making blindfolded participants experiment the fear to be
oppressed and then , when vampires, the revenge in oppressing the others
The final debriefing will clarify the position oppressed/oppressor as 2 faces of the same coin- ask
participants about their feelings in both the roles.