Facilitating a Workshop

What personal characterstics do you think you will be using when facilitating this workshop?

In order for your participants to engage the way you want them to how will you have to conduct yourself?

What qualities will you have to consider in your voice?

Keith Johnstone

Now you have added a Keith Johnstone game you had better complete some basic research into who he is and what he stands for.

Group Demographic

A demographic is the make-up of a group.

Consider the people who will be invited to attend your session.
Make comment on groups within the group that you will be catering for.
Make comment on the ways in which you are going to support their exploration of themes.
Make comment on the ways you are going to facilitate the different groups.
On a basic level there will be age and gender differences.
what further demographic gropus can you identify.

In short.
Make comment.

A Range of Stimuli

Use this thread to collect relevant videos and comments on videos that have relevance to Boal, the Forum Theatre subject matter / themes, Forum Theatre generally.

Reflections on Improvisation Workshops

Consider the improvisation workshops that you are attending.  After the workshop on 4th March, consider the following:

In what ways does the facilitator make the group feel comfortable / safe / able to experiment?

What sort of skills are people developing through these workshops.  Some are not so abvious?

What barriers are there to people participating.  What stops people 'letting go' and joining fully in?


What implications are there for designing a workshop of your own?
What factors might you need to consider?

Forum Theatre

“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build a future, rather than just waiting for it.”

Augusto Boal
Games for Actors and Non-Actors


Complete research into Forum Theatre.  Without copying and pasting huge chunks of text, but using evidence from the internet, explain the workings and purposes of forum theatre.

Make comment on the above quotation.

Shared Investigation

Post responses to the texts by Augusto Boal that you are reading.

Responses could include:

Preconceptions; what are your first reactions to the text after reading the cover and blurb and contents?

What do you already know about the author?  What prior learning or knowledge do you have?

More detailed analysis of the content of the content of the book.  Provide quotations and discuss them...offer your thoughts and ideas on the thoughts and ideas in the text.

You could find other people's reviews of the text you are investigating.

GO!