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 plotted to create a multi-media theatre performance. As a collective, we considered doing this by examining relevant topics and implementing a mixture of verbatim theatre and devised script techniques. However, Augusto Boal is the name of the practitioner that we principally used throughout the show. We chose Boal, because of the nature of his techniques, which allowed us to experiment with various themes and ideas 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 government can use this medium in their advantage, hence controlling the minds of the masses. We found this idea on Boals techniques that would involve the audiences participation. A member of our group came up with the idea of luring the audience into believing that something is real, when in detail it was completely made-up by our group. By using Boals theatre techniques such as Forum theater, Joker System, Newspaper Theatre and Image Theatre we set out to convince our audience that the British government are planning to release into the atmosphere a new chemical compound called E307 that slows carry out cells degeneration, thus making people live longer and be healthier. The E307 compound stemmed from our initial idea to create a gas called Anarchy flatulency that would have been used to counteract and absorb some of the nuclear radiation over Ukraine after the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986 and eventually speed up the counteraction process. As we delved into our research we divided ourselves in pairs, in or... ...-techniques.html. Last accessed 19th May 2014.David Farmer. (2010). Image Theatre. Available http//dramaresource.com/strategies/image-theatre. Last accessed 20th May 2014.S. Leigh Thompson. (2006). What is T heatre 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 OPPRESSED IN THE PUBLIC SPEAKING AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION CLASSROOMS . Louisiana domain 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.