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| − | As a verb: The notion of creating or shaping a theatre text through a workshop process, i.e. by having the actors and director create or adapt a play through a improvisation process(hence the term [[workshopping]] a text/play. Theatre made in this way is usually referred to [[Workshop | + | As a verb: The notion of creating or shaping a theatre text through a workshop process, i.e. by having the actors and director create or adapt a play through a improvisation process(hence the term [[workshopping]] a text/play. Theatre made in this way is usually referred to [[Workshop theatre]] |
Related concepts are [[improvisation]] and [[theatre-making]]. | Related concepts are [[improvisation]] and [[theatre-making]]. | ||
Revision as of 08:18, 17 February 2017
As a concept
As a verb: The notion of creating or shaping a theatre text through a workshop process, i.e. by having the actors and director create or adapt a play through a improvisation process(hence the term workshopping a text/play. Theatre made in this way is usually referred to Workshop theatre
Related concepts are improvisation and theatre-making.
A theatre workshop thus most often refers to a temporary or permanent venue/company/facility to facilitate such work.
The Workshop in Cape Town
Organisation of South African Artists (OOSAA), initiated “The Workshop”: a series of artmaking activities and events during the course of 1976 in the space in Mowbray that would subsequently become the Community Arts Project (CAP).
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