Fiona Buffini - What is Abstract Theatre?
* Status Journey
* Mistress Game > Universal language about status
^ Not matter where you come from in the world, at the end every understands that the game is about finding out what your status is within the game
Tokout AIDS
> Devise an idea > Travel to a community (this case, Papua New Guinea)
> Recrute members of the community/tribe
> Use the language that the community uses
> Teach them about the danger of Aids
> Tour this idea around to different communities
* Fiona explained that she learnt more from doing the project, and leaving with questions. She suggested that perhaps there would have had to have been a huge cultural shift by the community, a change in lifestyle and tradition.
* Working in the local language
* Trying to teach through culturally sensitive way about what is going on e.g. AIDs
* Trying to engage the audience verbally
Minority Rights Group International - Street theatre in Rwanda to challenge racist stereotypes.
* Create a piece of drama more than just a message
* Aim to change the way in which communities look and behave to another tribe
* Tour the performance around the local area
* The set took 15 minutes to put together
> Taken 6 actors, everyday people from the tribe e.g. farmers
> Taken 6 of the most famous actors from Rwanda
> The group of 12 worked together to help rebuild or build a house for one member within the tribe who really needed help. This meant that the actors could see how the people of the tribe lived, worked and what they dealt with. This also meant that the people from the village who were acting in the project felt they had the upper knowledge and confidence in what they were doing. Whilst the professional actors had the confidence in the rehearsal room.
* this put together different types of people from Rwanda together as well as people of different status together
i feel this kind of theatre brings together a community and can give a sense of self discovery as well as a voice.
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