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Michael Chen- Week 5- Beautiful Trouble

Principle: Anyone can act
By Andy Bichlibum

This article is interesting given its encouraging message. By posing these ideas of acting in a very “non acting” approach, many non actors can find some helpful tips here. The best and most relatable section includes the scenarios that aren’t necessarily for the a play or a film, because it shows how acting can apply outside of its convention. 


Tactic: Forum Theater 
By Levana Saxon

My favorite section of Forum Theater is that Forum theater is an effective tool of creative activism, useful for generating interventions, as an intervention itself, and for building common strategic frameworks for movements.


Theory: Alienation Effect 
By L.M. Bogad

The audience can be entertained without being manipulated. All of the effects are deliberately shown. Instead of using greater technology to manipulate the emotions of the audience, this theory of alienation aims to combat while creating a stimulating, surprising, entertaining, radically critical, popularly appealing and accessible social art practice.

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