​Ruhi Kumar
Actress, Hong Kong
Augusto Boal
-Brazilian Theatre Director
-Creator of theatre of the oppressed
-Examining social issues in Brazil
-About emphathizing with people and their struggles
Form theatre
-Audience members can interviene with performance
-Very loose boundary between actor and audience
-Exploring social and political issues to stimulate dialouge
-Audience could replace actors
-Explore pain and anguish being were experiencing in his community
-He wanted to empower the audience by giving them the power to share their story
-He aimed to promote and open up discussion
Invisibile theatre
-Subjective aspects of opression
-Their was an invisible audience (were not audience in a conventional sense)
-He picked locations where the audience was unaware of what was happening e.g. diner
-He wanted the audience to feel confused and scared and feel empathy for real life people
-Highlight a social issue
What is image theatre?
A physical representation for exporing concepts through using abstract images. Some of these concepts could include relationships and emotions as well as give the actor more freedom to explore their own physicality. Theatre is able to be effective without the confindes of dialouge or verbal language.
