2nd July, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
Below is a blog entry from Pinar about the experience of the group performing at this European Theatre of the Oppressed Festival in Croatia: We are sitting in Stansted on our way back from Pula thinking about what a wonderful time we had at the Theatre of the Oppressed Festival. We are very thankful to […] Read More
5th April, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Divided We Fall? – Finding the Story
Week 10 already! But we are well on track to developing two exciting pieces of Forum Theatre for our Community Event on the 11th and 12th of May. Thank you to Nick and to Pinar for warming us all up nicely with some rhythmic marching/fighting and face-pulling! Then it was back into our two groups […] Read More
27th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Adeus and Obrigada/o Portugal!
Thank you to Dave, Pinar, Karen, Liz, Nick, Suzanne and Emily for the blog post below about Active Inquiry’s trip to Lisbon! The Active Inquiry company has had an amazing weekend in Lisbon meeting some of the international Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) community. We’ve learnt some new games that we look forward to sharing when […] Read More
15th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
As we begin to reach the half-way point in our process this week was bout reflecting on what we had done so far and using this to form groups to begin to devise some pieces of Forum Theatre. After a quick round of “Eastenders Clap” we began to make rhythms in groups of our experiences of […] Read More
11th March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Divided We Fall? – Images of Oppression
Thank you to Pinar for writing the blog post for this week’s session below: A great start to this week’s session with ‘The Sun Shines On’ and ‘Threesome Image’ games. Introduction to Integration and Diversity went smoothly as we started doing the Agree/Disagree statements in a straight line to see what each individual thinks about […] Read More
1st March, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
Another great week which started with it being light outside when we started – summer is on it’s way! In a very hot Thomas Morton Hall we managed to race through a number of practical exercises. After some rhythmical warm-ups which were fun and confusing in equal measure we moved onto developing rhythms of […] Read More
22nd February, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - 2 Comments
This week’s session was spent exploring the media with the goal of using theatre techniques to see behind the story and look for what is missing. After same warm-up games from Nick which included becoming singing penguins and (literally) tying ourselves up in knots we began to revisit some of the image work that we […] Read More
18th February, 2013 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Divided We Fall? – Exploring Identity, Diversity and Integration
We are so happy that after a successful run of shows in November/December 2012 our Divided We Fall? project is continuing on Wednesday evenings in the Thomas Morton Hall on Ferry Road, Leith from 6-9pm. This is an opportunity for audience members from Stage 1 of the project and anyone else interested in the topic […] Read More
21st September, 2012 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Divided We Fall? – Free Public Workshop 26th September
After some weeks researching issues affecting people and organisations in Leith we have decided to call our new Forum Theatre project Divided We Fall? Information on the project and our Free Public Workshop on 26th September is below. You can invite people on our Facebook events page. The more the merrier! A theatre project in […] Read More
11th September, 2012 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Taking ACTion – our new Forum Theatre project begins!
Well we have now started our next Forum Theatre project in Leith with a working title of Taking ACTion. We have formed a small company of people who have worked with Active Inquiry before – a mixture of community and professional actors – and are going to be meeting once a week to research and […] Read More