Theatre of Exile

Horacio Czertok teaches theatre animation at the University of Ferrara., Martin Holbraad is Reader in Social Anthropology at UCL.

List of illustrations

Foreword

Introductory note

Preface - Fahrenheit revisited

PART I – THEATRE IN OPEN SPACES

A new beginning

Ferrara: meeting Antonio Slavich

Pedagogy and theatre practice: the group

The school of the street

Parallel lives

A dramaturgy for street theatre

From the character to the theme

The non-audience of street theatre

From non-audience to audience

Time robbers

A Prussian General at the service of the theatrical arts

Strategy and moral strength

Boldness

Perseverance

Surprise

Stratagem

Concentration of forces in a space

Knowing the terrain

Communications systems

The street as a theatrical place

From the city to the touring village: Mir Caravane

Quijote!

Emigration and theatre

PART II – THE EDGE OF THE COIN

The third side

Theatre workshop and techniques

The reasons of the heart

Pleasure and creativity

Theatre and mental health

The shaman in the university

Theatre in prison: dignity restored

Reading the body like a book

The actor: a professional liar?

Teacher and pupil – a drama in many acts

The humility of the miner

The art of observing

Observations on observation

Baudelaire's "pilot"

On the language of the gesture

Gesture and mask

Organic gesture real gesture

The invisible gesture

Theatre and magic

A look at primordial stupidities

Other ways of seeing

Magic and everyday life

"God laughed,

The voice of the wolf

Fire

PART III – THE METHOD OF EXILE

Theatre, storytelling and experience

Conflict as a an investigative technique

From the everyday to the out-of-the-everyday

The legend of the Method

From legend to practice: the improvisation exercise

Exercise preparation plan

From Maria's working diary

Individual preparation

Working with images

The role of remembrance

Relationships

The social relationship

The emotional relationship

The ethical-philosophical relationship

The environmental relationship

The motives: the becauses

Characteristics of the request

What a because is

The secret reason, or the chameleon strategy

The reasons for the becauses

The urgency in the becauses

The curtain

The situation: The need for surprise

The dynamic of the exercise

The activity

Attention and concentration: being or doing

The ten commandments of the activity

The reason for coming

The costume

The mood

Conditions of the mood

The doing of the exercise

Rules and aims of the game

The criticism of the exercise

The practice – some examples

The subconscious and character

Epilogue