The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble
two-week workshop for actors, directors, theatre practitioners, youth workers, and others interested in Boal’s world-famous methodology
Join Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts (Los Angeles) founder Brent Blair for a two-week intensive workshop on Image Theatre, Forum Theatre and Rainbow of Desire techniques, including basic Games for Actors and Non-Actors, an overview of the history and the pedagogy, and practical group exercises.
This is a unique opportunity to learn Theatre of the Oppressed techniques and theory from one of the world’s leading practitioners.
June 26-30 and July 3-7
Sessions are 4 hours each day, Monday-Friday, from 2 - 6 pm
University of Queensland at Ipswich, Building 14
Cost: $1000 per participant (places strictly limited)
$800 if full payment received by June 1st
Billeting may be available for out-of-state and international guests.
About Brent Blair
Brent is a teacher, activist, certified therapist and liberation artist, and currently a senior lecturer at the University of Southern California, where he founded the Applied Theatre Arts Program. Brent also founded the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in the USA, having worked extensively with Augusto Boal. Brent is a certified Linklater voice teacher and a faculty member of Shakespeare & Company. As a Fulbright scholar he traveled to Nigeria and has been involved in applied theatre in that country as well as in both Los Angeles and Boston. He is the innovator of several programs among youth at risk and in detention in the USA.
Brent will be in Australia to work with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble on the development of their Arts in Community Enhancement (ACE) methodology, which will be trialed in Queensland prisons in 2006. The ACE project is supported by the Queensland Law Society and the University of Queensland.
Getting to the venue:
University of Queensland at Ipswich, 11 Salisbury Road, Ipswich
UBD REF: MAP223 D1
The best way to get to the campus from Brisbane is via Ipswich Road and the Cunningham Highway, exiting at the Swanbank exit and crossing back over the Highway to follow South Station Road, Robertson Road, Chermside Road and then Salisbury Road. Entry to the campus is via Salisbury Road.