Case study 5 - Rationale
Summative Sentence:
The production "were you silent or were you silenced," is an excellent performative piece to illustrate community-artist engagement in theatre. This production produced an immersive multimedia performance by combining forum theatre aspects with community-artist collaboration addressed. Providing opportunities for different viewpoints, from observer to performer, to reflect, contribute thoughts and perspectives. In the process educating individuals of the topics not often discussed (Race, feminism, etc).
Circumstances of creation:
“Strongly influenced by the ideas of educational theorist Paulo Freire in his 1968 book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Boal developed a series of theatrical innovations and interventions designed to raise awareness of the causes of oppression, identify key problems facing a given community, seek collective solutions to them, and implement them not only on stage, but in societal and political venues” (McConachie, 2016)
Certain forms of structural inequality and injustice have existed for a long time. It is being illustrated and brought to the notice of individuals. We built a show as a collective community that could document some of these structural exploitation and oppressions. Within the context of politics.
The class collaboratively and carefully planned script performances showed the relevance of issues such as race in the nature of our culture and in the performance. In doing so, reactions were experienced; thoughts and opinions were formed much like Coudays explanation of the audience reaction (Coudray, 2017)
Purposes:
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Assignment instructions:
- Two-page rationale, for a Forum Theatre performance, as an example of community-artist collaboration.
- ● Content: Your rationale describes how your forum theatre performance fits into our understanding of community-artist collaborations as a whole. Write a summative sentence that proposes an answer to the question, “in what ways is our work an example of community-artist collaboration in theatre?” Provide evidence in bullet-points under these headings: circumstances; purposes; auspices; participants; process; means; media; conventions. You may refer to your own discussion contribution for community-artist collaborations, as well as to the contributions made by others, when you are thinking about the characteristics of communityartist collaborations. Under each heading, provide evidence drawn from at least one of our assigned reading or viewing materials, as well as at least one example from your prototype.
● Format: Use the format we use for discussion contribution posts to organize your argument. Bullet-points please, not continuous prose in paragraphs. There is no need to provide citations for your own work, but you must provide in-text, parenthetical citations for evidence drawn from assigned reading and viewing materials, in Chicago Author-Date style.
● Reference List: For this assignment, you must provide a reference list for all works cited (except your own) in Chicago Author-Date style
Guidelines
Advance Preparation Discussion, creation, and rehearsal with guest instructor Dr. Amir Al-Azraki and visiting artist Kimberlee Walker.