Ukraine After The Chernobyl Disaster in 1986 Essay -- neutralization pr

At the beginning of our project we considered Bertolt Brecht as a possible practitioner for our piece. By using his alienation technique we planned to bring out a multi-media business firm performance. As a collective, we considered doing this by examining relevant topics and implementing a mixture of direct theatre and devised script techniques. However, Augusto Boal is the name of the practitioner that we mainly apply end-to-end the show. We chose Boal, because of the nature of his techniques, which allowed us to experiment with various themes and vagarys throughout the performance. Our genuine idea was to create a piece that would show how the media can be used as a source of manipulation of the mass population. Furthermore, showing how the presidential term can use this medium in their advantage, hence controlling the minds of the masses. We base this idea on Boals techniques that would involve the audiences participation. A member of our group came up with the idea of lu ring the audience into believing that something is real, when in fact it was completely made-up by our group. By using Boals theatre techniques such as Forum dramatics, Joker System, Newspaper Theatre and pic Theatre we set out to convince our audience that the British government are planning to release into the atmosphere a naked chemical compound called E307 that slows down cells degeneration, thus making people vital longer and be healthier. The E307 compound stemmed from our initial idea to create a gas called Anarchy Gas that would have been used to sabotage and absorb some of the nuclear radiation over Ukraine after the Chernobyl misfortune in 1986 and eventually speed up the neutralization process. As we delved into our investigate we divided ourselves in pairs, in or... ...-techniques.html. Last accessed 19th may 2014.David Farmer. (2010). visualize Theatre. Available http//dramaresource.com/strategies/image-theatre. Last accessed 20th May 2014.S. Leigh Thompson. (2006). What is Theatre of the Oppressed? Image Theatre. Available http//theforumproject.org/whatisto/imagetheatre/. Last accessed 20th May 2014.Jaqueline D. Burleson (1991). AUGUSTO BOALS THEATRE OF THE crush IN THE PUBLIC SPEAKING AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION CLASSROOMS . Louisiana extract University The Department of Communication Studies. 17-30.The Brecht Forum. (2007). AUGUSTO BOAL & THE THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED. Available http//brechtforum.org/abouttop. Last accessed 22nd May 2014.Alex Maccioni. (2009). AUGUSTO BOAL THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED. Available http//chiaroscuromagazine.com/critique/augusto-boal-theatre-oppressed. Last accessed 22nd May 2014.