While reading Roberta Uno’s “Steps Toward a New World” I kept going back
to my sensibilities as an actor and the tools and words I use to
describe being the best actor your could be. With each chapter in the
excerpt, I was reminded of the power in trusting the piece, the art,
having it stand as the impetus for its creation. Telling a story can be
difficult if personal experiences and biases get mixed together. Roberta
creates a kind of theater for the new world through her story telling.
She understands the significance of what she is making in its specific
moment in time, thinking about its effects that it leaves on people. Her
work she writes about tends to have a strong sense of identity whatever
that may be.
Art and Social Change Invisible Theatre Invisible Theatre is the art of creating a performance in spaces that are not stages. The people who witness it cannot be aware it is a performance or else they would become spectators. The way this can be done is creating a solid and locked script that the actors stick to but also know it so well it allows flexibility and the ability for them to mess with it when the people witnessing the act give input or there is any disruption. The actors will prepare for anything when it comes to their performance. It is imperative to choose a location where people gather in large groups in the public. An example of how this is done is by having actors play in a scene in a crowded restaurant with many patrons. You have one actor make a big fuss over a meal they hate and the waiter offers them the nicest meal, acknowledging the price which the actor eating the meal lets it be known that the price is o...
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