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audra trower williams
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posted 12 December 2004 01:57 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Subway passengers in Canada were confronted by a different spectacle, though some may not have realized it. A group of about 30 female graduate students from the Transformative Learning Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University joined forces to put on a series of performances in public places around Toronto--some meant to be recognized as theater, and others meant to blend into daily life.

The "invisible theater," as the group called it, was based on the work of Augusto Boal, a Brazilian who specialized in experimental, interactive theater: theater hidden as daily life that was meant to provoke thought and conversation. Angela Lytle, one of the performers, asked that Women's eNews not describe the group's performance in detail, as part of the point is that the audience never realizes they witnessed a theatrical performance.

All that she would reveal about the scenes is that they were acted out in subways and involved a group of actors having an audible discussion about various aspects of violence against women. The group is in the process of creating a manual on invisible theater that can be used in the future to replicate and expand upon this year's performances.


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April
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posted 13 January 2005 02:38 AM      Profile for April     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Brilliant! Thank you for this. I think Invisible Theatre is fantastic, and am glad to hear stories of it being put to good use.
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posted 13 January 2005 10:38 AM      Profile for blueskyboris   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The widespread applications of this method are interesting.

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Scott Piatkowski
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B.S. Boris has finally broken out of his(?) own threads! Alert the media!
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posted 16 January 2005 01:48 AM      Profile for blueskyboris   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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