Tuesday 7 February 2012

Conflict and Gender

Make certain that you have completed the worksheet from Friday, February 3rd's class.

The three-person 'conflict' scenes you performed on Monday with the ADA 3M's were excellent.  Today, you focused on developing two-person scenes with a conflict centred on gender-based stereotypes.  We only got to see four scenes before the bell rang--looking forward to seeing the rest tomorrow.

Concepts we were reminded of from sharing our work: 

a) how an object can become a symbol (remote control);

b) how physical proximity can represent the distance between our points of view;

c) how our acting partners can support us in a scene when we forget what we had rehearsed;

d) how to hold for laughs while still maintaining a 'natural' flow of dialogue...

We will be using these scenes as a jumping off point as we look at the roles of actor/director/playwright.  In the meantime, check out this site:  http://brechtforum.org/abouttop

How does what we are doing in class around gender conflict related to Augusto Boal's vision of theatre and its role in society?

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