Last Call! Workshop with Augusto Boal, NYC, 53162

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe that all the truly revolutionary theatrical groups should transfer to the people the means of production in the theater so that the people themselves may utilize them. The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it." ~ ?Augusto Boal, The Theater of the Oppressed - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Cop-in-the-Head

a workshop facilitated by Augusto Boal

with the buttistance of Julian Boal and TOPLAB facilitators

Tuesday, May 31 through Thursday, June 2, 2005

(Note: The Forum Theater workshop, scheduled for June 3-5, is fully booked and no new registrations are being accepted. If you want to be placed on the waiting list contact toplab at toplab.org )

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory and the Brecht Forum are pleased to present Cop-in-the-Head, a workshop in the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed, facilitated by TO founder Augusto Boal.

Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that use games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, and explore power relations and collective solutions to concrete problems.

NOTE: Application and pre-registration is mandatory.

This workshop will take place at:

The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune Streets) New York City

Tuition: $450

For application or other information please contact the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory at toplab at toplab.org or see the information posted

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Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal is a political activist and major innovator of post-Brechtian theater. He served as Artistic Director of the Arena Theater in Sao Paulo from 1956 to 1971. In the 1970s, he came under attack by the Brasilian government, resulting in his imprisonment, torture and subsequent exile. Boal has lectured, conducted workshops, and mounted productions throughout North and South America, Europe, India and Africa, and has written a number of books, including Theater of the Oppressed; Games for Actors and Non Actors; and The Rainbow of Desire. An activist in the Brasilian Workers' Party (PT), he presently resides in Rio de Janeiro. In 1992, he was elected to the City Council of Rio, a post he held for four years. Once installed in office, he adapted his theater techniques for use in city politics, with some hilarious?and sometimes rancorous?results. Members of the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed became Boal's City Council staff, and created seventeen companies of players practicing "Legislative Theater" throughout the city.

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"There is not the slightest notion of ethics, credibility, standards of justice, humanitarian feelings, nor of the elementary principles of solidarity and generosity in the world you seek to impose on us today. Billions of human beings live in subhuman conditions--starving, without enough food, medicine, clothes, shoes or shelter and without even a minimum amount of knowledge or enough information to understand their tragedy and that of the world in which they live."

- --Fidel Castro, in a letter to George W. Bush

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