![]() Allows for multiple, even conflicting, expressions within a single image.Helps non-actors build performance skills.Gives participants an immediate and embodied experience of how theatrical images can communicate a complex range of meanings.Image Theatre is an excellent resource for working with non-actors to develop a public performance because it: These embodied images are then developed through the use of prompts that elicit words and dialogue from within the images and by having participants physically transition between images. Participants create images, or group tableaus, in response to prompts that are designed to focus their imaginations. In TSDC performance creation workshops Image Theatre is used as a live storyboarding technique, where a collective story is developed through a series of still images. ![]() ![]() (For full description of the technique see Augusto Boal’s book The Rainbow of Desire.) Adam Perry, TSDC research and workshop team member, School of the Arts.ĭeveloped by Brazilian theatre maker Augusto Boal, Image Theatre can be thought of as a theatrical application of the adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” The basic idea is that working in silence, participants use their bodies to create an ‘image’ or a frozen sculpture. Often, when we explain how the exercise is going to work, we tell participants, ‘We’re going to talk a lot about this, just not right now.’” We’re really trying to build a collective vocabulary of telling stories through your body. “ One of the reasons that we really focus on the silence piece during Image Theatre exercises is that we don’t want the stories to develop too soon and we don’t want it to be any one person’s story.
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