Week 7 – March 20

Yes Men, Boal

Assignments:

MIDTERM PAPERS DUE – March 20

CLASS PROGRESS PRESENTATIONS

Assignments  below due April 3

1. Patent Summary Application Assigned
2. a  new  one-page minimum journal entry on your research, and your thoughts during this phase of your project
3. Definitive list of deliverables

Work on Deliverables – project development
Progress report and presentation of deliverables progress due April 3

Augusto Boal -exercises

Pick a story from http://nytimes.com or http://cnn.com or http://msnbc.com or any other online news source. (20 mins) Assign roles and act it out, preferably in mime but sound effects (clapping, whistling, humming, fine). (20 mins average prep) It should have an event that builds up, has a crisis, and has a specific resolution of the crisis. Each group will act out their scenario with their particular situation, and then another group will “re-enact” it (re-enactments opened-ended) Keep in mind staging, imaginary props, etc.

Assignments:

Create your Patent Summary Application -upload to Openlab – see insructions under “Assignments” in Menu

Read:  “Boal’s Arsenal of Games and Exercises”  – games-theater-of-oppressed

Read “Interview with Augusto Boal” – Interview with Augusto Boal2pdf

Examine “The Re-Making Project” – http://www.charlesmee.org/html/about.html

The Re-Making project allows anyone to “remake” the plays of Euripedes, Aristophanes, Brecht, and the contemporary playwright Charles Mee.  Read about the project and then create a post post on forum about a play you would like to “re-make” whether it is because you would like to “re-write” it or “re-produce” it from a different perspective (updating it, changing the setting, time, environment, culture).  WRITE a description of your “remake”.  It is not necessary to actually remake it, but describe it in 500 words.

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