just completed the Forum Theatre Project, this year entitled Borders and Walls. a high-quality group of people assembled to discuss the texas/mexico border wall and to gather stories of immigrants and others involved in the issue. lots of discussion. for the final two weeks, the group met to put together a narrative and to improvise situations having to do with the border and an oppressor and an oppressed. finally, we performed this narrative, unscripted, and other improvisations having to do with oppressors/oppressed. at the end of the performance of the narrative, the audience was invited to intervene and change the outcome of the story.
i think the whole thing went really well. the ultimate goal of the project was to encourage discussion and thought, and i'm sure that we were successful in this goal. also, even though i was surprisingly rusty in an improvisation role, i really enjoyed working with the fine group of people that was assembled, and on such an important topic.
now i turn my energy to edward albee's 'the goat.' we had our first read-thru today and i am already thrilled at how much power and potential this play and these actors have. very exciting!
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