THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture 6: Class 6 - Devised Theatre and Cloud Nine
20 Jul 2018
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Colonialism: process by which one country invades & claims authority over another, serves the interests of the colonizers, assumes the inferiority of the colonized. History and fiction: what therefore is the difference between history and fiction, notion of an impartial and objective history is a myth, involves the same selective process involved in theatre and film story-telling. Cloud nine (1979: an early example of devised theatre. Script is collaborative, improvised: the product of a workshop on gender and colonialism. Cultural context: colonial england: the british empire, on which the sun never sets. And straight (in principle: family structure is the nucleus of this social structure. Cultural context: 1960s/70s sexual revolution: implied question behind the play: Core objectives of the play: to indicate the ongoing role of colonial ideologies in shaping behaviour, to question this role by destabilizing expectations about gender identity, sexuality & racialized identity. Is behaviour a social construction or biological essence: liberty:
