THEATRE VERSUS OPPRESSION
Registered Charity SC039092
Using applied theatre to bring about positive change and development

What happened next?

Comments & Feedback

Very convincing acting and well-written scripts.

It has been a really great experience watching the plays develop

What a good series – hope it develops further.

An exciting project that gives so many people an opportunity to work together.

A wonderful opportunity to work with new people.

An interesting and challenging approach to script development.

Loved that our opinions could help shape what happened – very empowering.

Exciting and interesting.

More more more!

Great to challenge the audience in this way. Great to challenge the notion of whose play is it really. Love the new relationship between audience, director and author.

Spread the word this deserves a much bigger audience.

Thank you for such an enjoyable time and for challenging the notion of the ‘too precious’ author.

We need more initiatives like this.

Love that audience is not passive and were given a voice and treated as having something of value to say.

Thoroughly enjoyed it and really got into the moment. Can’t wait for the full-length plays and the next round in the New Year.

Great to b a part of this.

Congratulations for making this happen.

We want more of this.

Unique, caring, efficient, professional. Overall just fantastic.

Loved having all the different perspectives.

Can’t wait to see what they look like and how they change when they become whole pieces.

What a creative way to produce plays.

Thank you for letting us the audience be a real part.

Really relaxed atmosphere, great fun – very glad to have been a part of this.

Loved that positive and negative feedback was all accepted – a sign of good writers.

Whole process was very entertaining.

It was all brilliant.

A great approach to showcase new work.

A fantastic process all round.

More TVO techniques – make the actors and directors follow the tvo techniques in rehearsals.

A fantastic opportunity for actors, directors, authors and the audience.

A brilliant night of theatre.

Fabulous to see the twists and turns of what does and doesn’t work in the exercises with the audience.

Great to see the different directorial approaches each month.

Loved working in this project – challenging but so rewarding. The time restrictions actually really help.

What an empowering project!

What a fun way to spend a Sunday night.

Needs more publicity.

This has been a lot of fun.

I have really enjoyed the process.  The exercises are the best, I hope to be able to use some of these techniques when I next direct.

The most challenging thing is to get over your initial thoughts on the character.  The most rewarding, the exercises that enable you to think outside the box and to view the character in a whole new light.

Most rewarding is working with different people on different pieces and watching how things develop each month that is very exciting.

I love having no preconceptions about the pieces and being involved in a small way in how they develop.

It is so exciting to get just that ten-minute glimpse, like watching a series on TV; you are left wanting more at the end of each ‘episode’.

I find new writing enormously satisfying to read and discover what the author may have intended, or even may not have intended but discovered through the process of the actors interpretation.

I love just working on that ten-minute extract, not being obliged to know what’s come before and not being tied down by what might come after.

It is a great feeling to be part of the creative process.

Very well organised in all aspects – from having the writing ready, allocating director and actors.

The ability to work through something in a short time helps you focus on the core of it.

The techniques used on the night really help develop the scenes and plot, they help focus on characterisation and I felt stretched as an actor which was great.

Love feeling involved – helping build the characters through the exercises.

It is both challenging and rewarding being put on the spot on the night as an actor – but it is done in a way that makes me feel safe and that I am trusted.

The exercises following the performance I thought really facilitated a valuable addition and initiated a period of personal consolidation that I may otherwise have not experienced.

Overall, I found the process immensely rewarding, from the experience of being one of the actors involved, observing other performers during the process and the feedback from all involved following that.

It is rare I feel, to be given such opportunity to continue to explore so liberally whilst in front of an audience.

For some reason the experience reminded me of a pre-show pep-talk given to a group of us once by Greg Cullen along lines of: "Never let yourself to miss a moment on stage and never miss an opportunity to surprise yourself.  Never underestimate the role of spontaneity.  Trust yourself to fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, live off the moment it's so much more fun."  It is a great environment that Theatre vs. Oppression has established and I feel my challenge would be to utilise as much of the above quote as possible within such a creative atmosphere. 

I find the exercises very intriguing and beneficial in helping us to see how a story can progress in different ways and how to deal with the expectation of the audience.