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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 thatre]]
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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 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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