Dramatic Improvisation for Film, Theatre, and Community

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Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves. —Augusto Boal The unknown is where we go to find new things, and intuition is how we find them. —Viola Spolin In this course, we will begin with improvisations from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. These exercises are developed to create empathy and connection within the participants. The goal of this work will be to experience games that a theatre artist might use to develop community and theatre material with nonactors. Once we strengthen the class community, we will begin to work on improvisations for film and theatre. Through techniques developed by filmmakers and theatre directors, course work will focus on developing an actor’s freedom and emotional truth. Actor’s Workshop: Creating a Character in Film and Theatre