In this unit, students will learn about Antonin Artaud and how his ideas influenced avant-garde theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries. They will also learn how Jerzy Grotowski took Artaud’s theories into new directions. This is done through direct instruction. A culminating presentation will ask students to take common stories and reimagine them using some of these ideas. They will present a “pitch” of an avant-garde version of their story. In the second lesson, students learn about some of the ideas of Augusto Boal and try a session of Forum Theatre.

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Ontario, Canada Grade 7 - Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

B3.1 compare and contrast how social values are communicated in several different drama forms and/or styles of live theatre from different times and places

Theatre Radically Reimagined: Exploring Artaud, Grotowski, and Boal

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