PERF219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intertextuality, Jerzy Grotowski, Essentialism
PERF219 Lecture Notes Tuesday 6th March 2018
Applied Theatre
- Theatre that takes place outside the theatre
- Audiences can contribute to the process of developing their own stories
- Can be used to reflect on ourselves, understand our place in the world, think about
our future.
- Range of different practices.
- The audience are very central to the process
Where do e fid Applied Theatre? Just aout eerhere …
- Theatre in Education
o Form of theatre that travels to schools predominantly and educates about a
certain issue, idea, or subject
- Popular Theatre
o Modern drama
- Theatre of the Oppressed
o Augusto Boal put together a theatre under an oppressive regime that allowed
people to deal with their psychological issues in a safe environment
o Took place in locatios that ouldt e thought of as theatre suitale
o No magic allowed. At the end of the roll plays they needed to come up with a
solution that was applicable to real life.
- Theatre for Health Education
o Can be used to roll play real life situation and can be used for evaluation
- Theatre for Development
o To inform communities how to take care for themselves
- Community Theatre
- Process Drama
- Theatre for Conflict Resolution and so on
A workable definition?
- Applied theatre is a urella ter … for fidig oetios ad liks for all of us
committed to the power of theatre in making a difference to the human life span. It
can take place in non traditional settings
- Making theatre for evaluation and healing.
- No one definition.
- Participants may or may not be skilled in theatre conventions and techniques and
may come from any social/cultural context.
- Not an all inclusive term – no term can be value free – we cannot assume that
theatre is a ratified art that an be just applied i a a – depends on cultural
and social contexts – may be factual of can be fictional – ho it is applied a take
myriad forms!
- Theatre implied an audience but in applied theatre everyone is a PARTICIPANT in
some way – never passive
- At times, there is a direct input by a target audience but at other times, theatre can
e fored o ehalf of a target group
o Whether acting, or singing, or telling stories.
Different participative relationships exist:
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Document Summary
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