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Session #2 - Introduction to Practitioners

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Session #2 - Introduction to Practitioners

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Session 2_ Introduction to Practitioners

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More About Us | Box House Theatre | England

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Box House Theatre is passionate about finding new and innovative ways of introducing interactive theatre techniques to assist with curriculum.

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Augusto Boal (born March 16, 1931, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-died May 2, 2009, Rio de Janeiro) Brazilian dramatist who created the Theatre of the Oppressed, a form of interactive theatre intended to transform lives as spectators become performers, acting out solutions to social problems.

Boal grew up in Rio de Janeiro and earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1952. However, he had been interested in theatre since he was a child, and, when he attended Columbia University in New York City, he studied theatre in addition to chemical engineering. He returned to Brazil in 1955.

Boal began his career with the Arena Theatre in São Paulo in 1956, and he was its artistic director until 1971, during which time he developed his theories. In the late 1960s, inspired by Pedagogia do oprimido (1968; Pedagogy of the Oppressed) by revolutionary educator Paulo Freire, he began experimenting with a form of Living Newspaper theatre. His work was considered subversive by the military junta then ruling Brazil, and he was arrested in 1971 and tortured. He spent the next 15 years in exile.

During this period Boal published Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas (1974; Theatre of the Oppressed), in which he described three forms of activist theatre. In Image Theatre, performers form tableaux representing an oppressive situation, and spectators are invited to interpret and suggest changes to the tableaux. Invisible Theatre involves actors performing a written and rehearsed problematic situation in a public place in order to provoke responses from passersby, who are unaware that they are taking part in theatre. In Forum Theatre, actors perform a short scene based on an event involving oppression. Spectators are encouraged to suggest and enact solutions to the problem in the scene. Image Theatre and Forum Theatre require skilled facilitators, called Jokers, to mediate between the actors and the spectators.

Boal set up a centre for the practice of his theory in Paris and organized international Theatre of the Oppressed festivals in the early to mid-1980s. Boal returned to Brazil in 1986 and established a Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro as well as several community theatre companies. In 1992 he published Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs ( Games for Actors and Non-Actors), which describes exercises and techniques for putting his method into practice. He also organized international festivals for practitioners of his style of theatre.

From 1992 to 1996 Boal served on Rio de Janeiro's city council, and while there he developed what he called Legislative Theatre, which was similar to Forum Theatre but was directly focused on policies and laws that could solve problems. In addition to his work to promulgate the Theatre of the Oppressed, Boal taught theatre and directed conventional plays throughout his life. His autobiography, Hamlet e o filho do padeiro ( Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics), appeared in 2001.

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Augusto Boal | Biography, Books, Plays, Theory, & Facts

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Augusto Boal, Brazilian dramatist who created the Theatre of the Oppressed, a form of interactive theater intended to transform lives as spectators become performers, acting out solutions to social problems. He wrote Theatre of the Oppressed and Games for Actors and Non-Actors.

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The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton's artistry, which includes film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself.

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Session #3 - Introduction to Stanislavski

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Session #3 - Introduction to Stanislavski

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Link to Padlet - B5/D11 - Community and Devising

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Link to Padlet - B5/D11 - Community and Devising

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All footage

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A director is a person who is in charge of managing or organising a project or company. Such as creating movie or tv series projects, and having responsibilities of bringing a script to life, they work with aspects of lighting, camera angels and set designs. They also work with actors creating a good relationships to ensure the vision of the story is made to full potential. An example of a famous director is James Burrow who made the magnificent, popular tv series on multiple streaming apps, Friends. James burrow wrote a book on the troubles but experiences made within doing popular acting projects. A person quotes their opinion on Burrows work after reading the book, entitling their overall view on him “If learned anything from this book, it was that Mr. Burrows is a very down-to-earth, loving, and humble individual, something quite rare in Hollywood. He has no tolerance for egos and diva behavior, requiring that anyone who works on his sets check their egos at the door.” https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0593358244 .

This ensure that Burrows is professional when in the work environment and is very successful with his director role, and has achieved an 11 Primetime Emmy award and five directors Guild of American of Awards.

An actor is an individual who portrays a character in a movie, series, plays or any form of entertainment. They embody and bring characters to life through body language, emotions, personality traits and the way that they speak. They’ll be provided with help from receiving instructions from director, producer and dialect coach etc to really get into the character they are portraying.

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A director is an important individual in the filmmaking process who is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of film. They bring the script to life on screen. The director works closely with the cast and crew to ensure the vision of the film is understood and followed.They also make decisions about the technical elements of the movie, such as camera angles, lighting and overall style.Christopher Nolan is an example of a talented director and directed movies such as interstellar,Oppenheimer and some Batman movies. Christopher won the academy award for best director for Oppenheimer, Empire award for best film for Batman dark night and the BAFTA awards for best film for Oppenheimer. Reviews describe Nolan’s film ‘Oppenheimer’ as a” Cinematic masterpiece.” https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9200581/?ref_=rw_urv

Actors and directors play distinct roles in the filmmaking process.While both essential to creating a move, their responsibilities differ significantly. The actor embodies the role written in the script, portraying the emotions, actions and dialogue of the character and making the character be more interesting and realistic for the audience.

However the director oversees the entire framework a company, reading at editing the scripts and making critical decisions that effect the whole company.

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Add your Swap Shop name suggestions (and your name) below.

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ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner MARINA, an old nurse A WORKMAN The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF'S country place A country house on a terrace.

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Script - Brecht, B. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

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Script - Brecht, B. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

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Brecht, B. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.pdf

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Level 3 Year 1 Acting Course Assessment Plan 2024 - 2025

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Skills audit 1 Complete at the start of the unit

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Skills audit 1 Complete at the start of the unit

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Skills audit 2 Complete at the end of the project

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Skills audit 2 Complete at the end of the project

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Session 20_Performing Artaud and Assignment

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Stanislavski

·         The Seagull – Anton Chekhov

·         Uncle Vanya – Anton Chekhov

·         A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen

·         Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen

Brecht

·         Mother Courage and her Children – Bertolt Brecht

·         The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – Bertolt Brecht

·         The Threepenny Opera – Bertolt Brecht

·         The Caulkasian Chalk Circle – Bertolt Brecht

Artaud

·         4.48 Psychosis – Sarah Kane

·         The Marat Sade – Peter Weiss

·         The Balcony – Jean Genet

·         Metamorphoses – Mary Zimmerman

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Complete the logbook and upload it to your Padlet page. You should try to use as much detail as possible. You must complete each section.

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Sign in to your OneDrive cloud storage and Office Online.