Augusto Boal
Tomorrow I'm going to the Odsherred Teatersloke, Institute for Ny Scenekunst in Nykbøing in order to participate in an Augusto Boal's Forum Theater workshop. I don't know what to expect from this workshop. I have found Augusto Boal's ideas very provocative. Yet his books sound like booklets from the communist parties of the third world. His theory was indeed created in the context and for the third world.
The leader of the school, Martin Elung offered to pick me up tomorrow at the airport when he is going to collect Boal and his son from the airport. The workshop begins from Monday but I wanted to go to the school a day earlier. It would be very stressfull for me to get there by 10 a.m. in the same day and be concentrated on the work. It's cool that we'll be given single rooms in the school. Normally I share rooms with other participants when I go to workshops.
However I'm just don't know how to feel about the time when I'm in the car with Boal and driving towards Nykøbing. It feels somewhat weird that I meet him before the workshop. What are we going to talk about? The recent election in Iran? Theater of the Opressed? Danish weather? Is he going to arrive late and we have to wait a long time for him at the airport? Is he coming from Paris (talking of the French "non" to EU) or is he coming from Brazil (talking about football match?) I expect Boal to be a charismatic character. I hope he is. That would be the missing key to relate to his “theatric” theories. I put theatric into the quotation marks because it is not pure theatric, technical theory that Boal deals with. To him “theater is a weapon.” What I am interested in is more of the craftsmanship the performance arts. Whereas Boal is somehow a social worker and an activist who uses theatre as a tool. Let see what come out of.
The leader of the school, Martin Elung offered to pick me up tomorrow at the airport when he is going to collect Boal and his son from the airport. The workshop begins from Monday but I wanted to go to the school a day earlier. It would be very stressfull for me to get there by 10 a.m. in the same day and be concentrated on the work. It's cool that we'll be given single rooms in the school. Normally I share rooms with other participants when I go to workshops.
However I'm just don't know how to feel about the time when I'm in the car with Boal and driving towards Nykøbing. It feels somewhat weird that I meet him before the workshop. What are we going to talk about? The recent election in Iran? Theater of the Opressed? Danish weather? Is he going to arrive late and we have to wait a long time for him at the airport? Is he coming from Paris (talking of the French "non" to EU) or is he coming from Brazil (talking about football match?) I expect Boal to be a charismatic character. I hope he is. That would be the missing key to relate to his “theatric” theories. I put theatric into the quotation marks because it is not pure theatric, technical theory that Boal deals with. To him “theater is a weapon.” What I am interested in is more of the craftsmanship the performance arts. Whereas Boal is somehow a social worker and an activist who uses theatre as a tool. Let see what come out of.
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