NYC Augusto Boal Workshop Deadline May 10 to Apply

Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) 451 West Street New York, New York 10014 (212) 924-1858

The two upcoming workshops with Augusto Boal and Julian Boal, Invisible Theater and Cop-in-the-Head, are filling up fast and there are only a few places left.

The extended priority application deadline is this coming Wednesday, May 10, 2006. Applications received after that date will be placed on a waiting list and will be considered only if places open up due to unavoidable participant cancellations.

Hurry and apply now so you don't miss this once-a-year opportunity!

You can apply online at:

Here are the details:

Workshop 1: Invisible Theater Saturday, May 20, 2006 through Monday, May 22 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Tuition: $450

Workshop 2: Cop-in-the-Head Tuesday, May 23 through Thursday, May 25 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Tuition: $450

Workshops take place at:

The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (West Side Highway) New York City

Invisible Theater is one of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed, in which "actors" create "theatrical" situations in public places, but where the public does not realize that a performance is unfolding before them. The idea is to engage people in dialogue around social issues and ultimately provoke them into taking some kind of action on the issue. Invisible Theater can be "performed" anywhere--in city streets, in restaurants, on public transportation, etc. It is a type of guerilla theater, and has been used by political activists all over the world around numerous issues big and small.

Cop-in-the-Head, one of the Image Theater exercises developed by Augusto Boal, is an introspective technique used to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, and seeks to understand how internal oppression is related to external, societal forms of oppression. It explores power relations and collective solutions to concrete problems. The workshop begins with someone recounting a personal experience of oppression, and then gradually goes from the particular to the general. In the end the group, and not the original story-teller, has become the protagonist.

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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." --George W. Bush, May 1, 2003

"...I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult, and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult--and we are prevailing." --George W. Bush, June 28, 2005

U.S. military baneities through May 1, 2003: 140 U.S. military baneities through June 28, 2005: 1743 U.S. military baneities as of May 7, 2006: 2417

Iraqi civilian baneities through May 1, 2003: 1982 Iraqi civilian baneities through June 28, 2005: 22,563 � 25,560 (estimated)* Iraqi civilian baneities as of May 7, 2006: 34,711 � 38,861 (estimated)*

*These figures are based on the number of baneities cited in various news reports and have been criticized, with much justification, for not giving an accurate buttessment of the real civilian rest count. A much more rigorous and statistically-reliable study, conducted by teams from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Al-Mustansiriya University, and published in The Lancet (the British medical journal) in the Fall of 2004, put the figure at around 100,000 civilians dead. However, that data had been based on "conservative buttumptions", according to research team leader Les Roberts, and the actual count could be significantly higher. Note also that the Lancet study's data greatly underestimated baneities in Falujah due to the surveying problems encountered there at that time. If the full and true data from this town is included, the compiled studies would point to about 250,000 excess civilian rests since the outbreak of the aggression and genocide committed by the United States against the people of Iraq.

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