This workshop is a collaborative attempt to understand and practice Augusto Boals Theatre of the Oppressed
A must if you are a performer, impro actor, role-player, Cross-Reality actor, NPC’er, agent, spy or assassin gamer.
Augusto Boal (April 16, 1931 – May 2, 2009) was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements.
“Let us, we and they, create it first in the theatre, in fiction, to be better prepared to create it outside afterwards, to extrapolate into our real life.”
- Augusto Boal
In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as “spect-actors” they explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living.
The workshop is based on and are following selected elements from chapter three in the book:
Boal, Augusto (1992). Games for actors and non-actors. (2. ed) USA, Abingdon: Routledge
You will get a deeper experience if you read the book before the workshop. It is expected that participants are able to participate both dates.
There will be room for the first 16 participants that signup. Remember to bring cloth for physical exercise
Dates: Monday the 18th and the 25th of October 2010 at 19:30 to 22:00
Price: Free
Adress: Forsøgsstationen, Sønder Boulevard 81, København V.
Credit
The workshop is arranged by Obtentus and the workshop host Jakob la Cour.
A special thanks to Forsøgsstationen and Inga Gerner Nielsen
More info
Augusto Boal on wikipedia