Practicing Applied Performance Online

24.06.20 Mambo Jambo sculptures for SDEA Home Remedies.

12.05.20 Low cost cosplay (with the biggest plastic bowl we could find at home) as Earth Engineers from The Wandering Earth (by Liu Cixin). I used a process drama format, with The Wandering Earth as the basis for a lesson about online research methods and methodologies.

We also recreated places that we would like future generations to recreate on the surface of the Earth, when people can finally live safely on the surface of the Earth again. In The Wandering Earth, the Earth’s surface has become frozen and we have all had to live underground. The following photos are a tongue-in-cheek recreation of Table Mountain, in Cape Town, South Africa.

09.04.20 Adapting Boal. This is part of an online video I’m creating for students. I’m exploring ways of adapting Augusto Boal’s Theatre of Oppression techniques to the lockdown. Here, I’m sculpting my abstract shape of fear (instead of oppression) with furniture, but one could also use food, or piles of clothes, or anything that one might find lying around the house (instead of using another person). Applied theatre practitioners out there – share pictures of how you’re adapting applied theatre techniques to the lockdown situation. Would love to see you having fun with it too!

Top: Ideal image / Bottom left: Actual image / Bottom right: Transition image