Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Rainbow of Desire

The Rainbow of Desire-- The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy, by Augusto Boal (1995)


Thatre is an observation of human life. We see what we are, what we are not, and what we could be-- and because of this, theatre is the thing from which all other inventions and ideas and realities stem.


"Therein resides the essence of tehatre: in the human being OBSERVING ITSELF."


  • The observing- I, I-in-situ, and the not-I through an imaginary mirror
  • See yourself seeing, feel yourself feeling, think your thinking (capacity for this self-knowledge is "theatricality")
  • As an actor, you learn to guide yourself, see yourself, ACT on yourself.
  • Part of "seeing yourself" is discovering varieties, discovering alternatives, imitating other people/actions/animals. Only with acute self-awarness can you do that.
  • DICHOTOMY-- seeing itself seeing.

~the being becomes human when it invents theatre~

  • fill the space between "I am" to "I can be", the space between what is, but does not exist
  • theatre is the true nature of humanity
  • at first, actor and spectactor were originally the same beings, they are now separated.

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