Question
This performance framework includes a role called the “Joker,” a neutral party who mediates between actors and audience. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this performance framework whose subtypes include Image Theater and Forum Theater. Audience members in this framework are “spect-actors” who often interact with the performance.
ANSWER: Theater of the Oppressed [or Teatro do Oprimido; accept TO]
[10e] Augusto Boal developed the Theater of the Oppressed as an alternative to the didacticism of this author’s epic theater, which is found in plays like The Good Person of Szechwan.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]
[10m] Groups that practice Forum Theater include the UK’s Cardboard Citizens, which is made up of people with this status. In a Pinter play, a character who begins with this status often talks about retrieving his papers in Sidcup.
ANSWER: homeless [or houseless; accept descriptions such as living on the street; accept alternative or disparaging names like vagrant or tramp; prompt on poor or impoverished] (The character is Davies from The Caretaker by Harold Pinter.)
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 33% | 22% |
Data
| BHSU | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| remembrance of lost time | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I would prefer not to | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | The Canadians | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |