Posts tagged ‘theatre’
Osadia hair art street theatre
The Osadia theatre company, formed in Barcelona in 1996, created the most awesome spectacle at the 2004 Womadelaide festival in Australia.
Their elaborate Geisha and Versailles inspired costuming together with matching attitude made the complete experience high drama - from the theatre of choosing their subjects, the efficient transformation of their hair and face through to the presentation of their completed pygmalion to the waiting crowd (all eager to be chosen next).
And watching these lucky chosen few over the remainder of the weekend, their teflon make-up and hair dye set immaculately, it was clear that they too had acquired some sublime Osadia attitude particularly whilst being adored and treated as walking artworks by other punters. See some of them in my slideshow.
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Cardboard Citizens - the homeless people’s theatre company
Augusto Boal receives award in Ireland
Listen to Augusto Boal, founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, receive the Crossborder Award for Peace and Democracy in Ireland earlier this year.
In Your Face with YOUTH ACTION NI
Legislative Theatre and tackling the cops in our heads
Political theater cannot work miracles, says Augusto Boal, the Brazilian author of the radical classic The Theater of the Oppressed, but it can be used to change the law. Having been elected to the city council of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, Boal is turning techniques first devised to encourage audience participation into a way of making popular legislation.