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Thursday, May 30
 

1:00pm EDT

Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Pre-Conference Workshop / Taller: Introducción al Teatro del Oprimido
Thursday May 30, 2024 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors)

PTO is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, 30 May 2024 from 1:00-4:30pm at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.

The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.

During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved. The working language of this workshop will be English.

“El teatro es una forma de conocimiento; debe y puede ser también un medio para transformar la sociedad.” (Augusto Boal, Juegos para actores y no actores)

En este taller, lxs participantes conocerán las técnicas utilizadas en el Teatro del Oprimido no sólo para revelar la realidad tal como es, sino, más importante aún, para inventar la realidad tal como podría ser. Después de algo de teoría básica, la primera parte del taller se centrará en la desmecanización, la percepción y la construcción de comunidades. Haremos algunos ejercicios (reflexiones físicas sobre unx mismx), jugaremos algunos juegos y exploraremos cómo creamos juntxs.

La segunda parte del taller introducirá el Teatro Imagen: hacer esculturas con nuestros cuerpos y dinamizarlos para descubrir las metas, deseos y posibilidades dentro de ellos.

Durante el último segmento del taller, nos convertiremos en actores-espectadorxs en una escena del Teatro Foro y plantearemos preguntas sobre el poder del Teatro del Oprimido para señalar la dificultad de desafiar la opresión sistémica y promover el aprendizaje para todxs lxs involucradxs. Este taller tendrá lugar en inglés.


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Mark Weinberg

Co-Director, Center for Applied Theatre
Mark Weinberg is co-founder, with Jenny Wanasek, of The Center for Applied Theatre. He began his study of TO with Augusto Boal in 1992 and has conducted workshops and training sessions for educators, administrators, students, business leaders, theatres, NGOs and community organizations... Read More →
Thursday May 30, 2024 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
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