Suzanne Phillips's Posts - National Theatre Wales Community2024-03-29T08:34:46ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillipshttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3003263200?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=3ugpis26zmqry&xn_auth=noTheatre of the Oppressed techniques workshoptag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2014-07-31:3152760:BlogPost:2018972014-07-31T11:10:13.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
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</div>Til Death Do Us Part?tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2012-03-01:3152760:BlogPost:1138732012-03-01T12:00:00.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
<p>Theatre versus Oppression is a group of theatre practitioners; artists; community workers; and arts professionals who use techniques developed from Theatre of the Oppressed techniques by Jennifer Hartley to address issues of conflict. We use a play as a catalyst to address the issue and then work through a series of workshops with the aim of exploring behaviour and leading to change. We have applied theatre projects in Africa - working with COBURWAS a co-operative in the Kyangwali Refugee…</p>
<p>Theatre versus Oppression is a group of theatre practitioners; artists; community workers; and arts professionals who use techniques developed from Theatre of the Oppressed techniques by Jennifer Hartley to address issues of conflict. We use a play as a catalyst to address the issue and then work through a series of workshops with the aim of exploring behaviour and leading to change. We have applied theatre projects in Africa - working with COBURWAS a co-operative in the Kyangwali Refugee Camp in Uganda and in Wales a project tackling domestic abuse. Here's the trailer of the play Til Death Us Do Part which is the play we've developed for the project. The play developed out of our Cardiff What Happened Next? project which aimed to create new work and create a community of actors, writers and directors through which new work and relationships could develop.</p>
<p>The group is open to everyone. There are training weeks and days through the year.</p>
<p>The next training sessions in Wales are in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff UK: </p>
<p>June 23-25 Rainbow of Desire<br/> June 27-28 How to read Body Language<br/>
June 30-July 2 Theatre of the Oppressed as an Acting Technique.</p>
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<p>For more information <a href="http://www.theatreversusoppression.com">www.theatreversusoppression.com</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/37727316">Til Death Do Us Part Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user9799236">Suzanne Phillips</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Can Theatre Change the World?tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2011-12-22:3152760:BlogPost:1062862011-12-22T16:08:38.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
<p><span>Joseph Munyambaza is going to study pre med at Westminster College in Missouri USA. He has a partial scholarship and the additional fees have been met by donors inspired by his story. What is delightful about this news is three things - Joseph is a refugee and has been in the Kyangwali refugee camp Northern Uganda, since he was 6 years old; he decided to study medicine after his sister from malaria with her unborn child (she was 7 months pregnant and was denied medical help because…</span></p>
<p><span>Joseph Munyambaza is going to study pre med at Westminster College in Missouri USA. He has a partial scholarship and the additional fees have been met by donors inspired by his story. What is delightful about this news is three things - Joseph is a refugee and has been in the Kyangwali refugee camp Northern Uganda, since he was 6 years old; he decided to study medicine after his sister from malaria with her unborn child (she was 7 months pregnant and was denied medical help because she was a refugee and could not pay for it) and despite setbacks Joseph has never wavered from his purpose; and people in Wales played a part in Joseph’s achievement.</span></p>
<p><span>Of course it is completely down to his own hard work and self belief but when Joseph did a workshop with Theatre versus Oppression (TvO) founder Jennifer Hartley and saw the possibilities of applying her techniques to the community in the camp, a connection was made. Convinced the work would help to build a community in a camp of over 25 000 people, Joseph was determined to get TvO to the Camp and he did - it’s an ongoing commitment that began in 2009. </span></p>
<p><span>Everyone who took part in our What Happened Next? project; who came to the fundraisers, training workshops, those who sponsor an orphan’s education in our Right To Learn scheme in the Camp; all the actors, directors and members of the audience and funders who support the work of TvO, they all made an impression on Joseph who wrote to us to say how much our support had helped and inspired him to follow his dreams.</span></p>
<p><span>Two years ago I wrote a blog considering the question: Can Performance Change the World? Hearing Joseph’s news gives me hope that it can do more than that.</span></p>
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<p><span>For more information <a href="http://www.theatreversusoppression.com/"><span>www.theatreversusoppression.com</span></a></span></p>TvO Fundraiser Auction at Chapter Media Point this Tuesdaytag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2011-11-26:3152760:BlogPost:963082011-11-26T15:51:30.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
<h2><span class="font-size-3">An opportunity to raise funds for our theatre project with the Kyangwali Refugee Camp while finding some great Christmas Presents, at good prices.</span></h2>
<p>TvO is holding a charity auction this Tuesday 29 November at 7pm.</p>
<p><span>There are some great items to bid on – large and small, including a week long stay in a holiday cottage on the borders. </span></p>
<p><span>We have some fantastic items: jewellery (lots of Rennie Macintosh stuff) - a lot of…</span></p>
<h2><span class="font-size-3">An opportunity to raise funds for our theatre project with the Kyangwali Refugee Camp while finding some great Christmas Presents, at good prices.</span></h2>
<p>TvO is holding a charity auction this Tuesday 29 November at 7pm.</p>
<p><span>There are some great items to bid on – large and small, including a week long stay in a holiday cottage on the borders. </span></p>
<p><span>We have some fantastic items: jewellery (lots of Rennie Macintosh stuff) - a lot of silver and silver sterling that will be going for a fraction of its retail price, toiletries, books, cds, alcohol (lots of it), handbags, shoes, clothes, a Royal Doulton dinner set as well as lots of other surprises.</span></p>
<p><span>29 November 7pm in Media Point, upstairs in Chapter Arts Centre. </span></p>
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<p><span>All proceeds will go towards our theatre work with the Coburwas cooperative in the Kyangwali Refugee Camp. TvO uses theatre techniques to work towards sustainable development.</span></p>
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<p><span><a href="http://www.theatreversusoppression.com">www.theatreversusoppression.com</a> for more information</span></p>
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<p><b>April 2011 Newsletter</b></p>
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<p align="center"><i>“<a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/limitations_live_only_in_our_minds-but_if_we_use/254292.html" target="_blank">Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.</a>”</i></p>
<p align="right">(by Jamie Paolonetti)</p>
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<p><b><i>I know this is lengthy but there is a lot of information and some key updates and need for your support so please read through…</i></b></p>
<p><b>April 2011 Newsletter</b></p>
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<p align="center"><i>“<a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/limitations_live_only_in_our_minds-but_if_we_use/254292.html" target="_blank">Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.</a>”</i></p>
<p align="right">(by Jamie Paolonetti)</p>
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<p><b><i>I know this is lengthy but there is a lot of information and some key updates and need for your support so please read through and pass on to others who would be interested.</i></b></p>
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<p>The story of Theatre versus Oppression and particularly our work with Kyangwali refugee settlement are encompassed by the quotation above. Our projects continue to grow, as does our support, and possibilities for the future are constantly developing. We are a very small charity organisation, surviving project to project and dependant upon the fundraising support and donations of our supporters. And we continue to grow and develop against all odds as it sometimes feels.</p>
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<p>And so we are in April and I fear yet another New Year’s resolution of more regular newsletters has got off to a very bad start. I have spent much of the last three months in the USA and been trying to keep different projects in various locations going at the same time, and managing with the help and support of those who volunteer with TvO giving up so much of their time and effort to ensure that we keep growing.</p>
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<p>We have various projects at the moment, many of which are a continuation of work begun last year. The domestic violence project has moved on and more training and prison workshops should be kicking off in the next few weeks tailored programmes of the ‘What Happened Next?’ project are being launched in 4 locations in the UK; new training programmes for the general public are taking place in June and July; the play based on domestic violence ‘Til Death do us Part’ opens in a few short weeks; a book on applied theatre will be published for October; and we are making preparations for ongoing work and a visit to Kyangwali.</p>
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<p>There are some updates from the refugee camp that I would like to share and many have asked about Joseph and what has happened to him since graduating from the African Leadership Academy in June 2010.</p>
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<p><b>Updates</b></p>
<p>- The school building is complete except that shutters and doors have not been added and the floor is incomplete. The building is in use despite this and playing an active role in the society. However the money ran out before this could be completed and we are still trying to raise the necessary funds to complete this work. The building is a school, a community hall, a multipurpose and a meeting place easily accessed by the community for development meetings and gatherings. It brings unity and harmony to see the community sharing under the shade provided by TVO.</p>
<p>- The Right to learn programme increased its membership in January with 4 more orphans being taken over. Right to Learn takes on the sponsorship of children in extremely needy situations providing them with food, clothing, healthcare, a home and education. This annual sponsorship ensures these children have an education through to the end of high school (a rare possibility in the camp) and opens up possibilities of the students going on to university, meaning a possibility of leaving the camp and gaining new opportunities or, as is more common, using that education to come back and work on improving life in the camp. In the words of Benson Wereje from the camp, <i>‘Orphans have benefited and right to learn has been a home to abandoned and orphaned children. It is weeping away the tears of widows hence increasing the life expectancy of the vulnerable people in the camp. Education is life here, it is possibility of a future of hope and education is a pillar of development.’</i></p>
<p>- Unfortunately one sponsor had to withdraw through no fault of their own. It was an organisation sponsoring one of the children and they did not get final approval to go ahead with it. Unfortunately we had already notified the child that they would be a part of the programme and started them in the school so right now we are looking for a sponsor to pick this up so we do not have to withdraw the student from the school at the end of the semester. Please help us if you can.</p>
<p>- The theatre group we established in 2010 continues to grow but is meeting with some difficulties due to lack of funding. This makes travel around the camp difficult if not impossible at times. We had also hoped to purchase t-shirts as a kind of uniform for the group (clothing is in small supply in the camp and a ‘uniform’ of sorts will also make legal movement around the camp easier for the refugees’. We are trying to raise money for this also. Below is a report from the manager of the theatre group, Benson Wereje.</p>
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<p>We have made so much progress in Kyangwali but we still face many challenges. Theatre versus Oppression is in a very difficult situation. As a small charity we do not qualify for major grants or admin support and must find ways to support all our projects without this; yet our workload is much larger than would be expected from a small charity and our projects intense and diverse. My policy when I began this organisation was that we would never go looking for projects but would try to never turn down anyone who asked for our help. At that time I did not foresee that so many would ask for our support and help and we are all working as hard as possible to ensure that we never have to turn down a project but financially this is becoming harder and harder. But we have hope and as the saying goes <i>- <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/man_can_live_about_forty_days_without_food-about/190333.html" target="_blank">Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope</a></i>.</p>
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<p>Finally an update on Joseph’s situation. I know that Joseph’s story has stolen the hearts of many and I have received many requests on updates about his situation. Joseph graduated in June 2010 giving a remarkable and moving speech that marked the day for all of us. He then returned to the camp to await news on his possibilities for future study and his dream of being accepted to a US college and pursue medicine.</p>
<p>Back in the camp Joseph returned to his teaching and organisational roles, helping others achieve an education and supporting the women and girls to be more independent and safer. He has continued this work relentlessly. Joseph did receive acceptance into an American college, two to be precise, but they did not offer a scholarship. As a refugee Joseph owns nothing but the clothes on his back, he has no funding whatsoever and so without a full scholarship university is impossible. With ALA we are continuing to search out possibilities and Joseph continues to hope and believe in his future possibilities although he has often had to struggle with his fears and disillusionment that his dream seems unattainable. However Joseph is a fighter and we are all sure that we will find a way. I can think of no one who deserves it more.</p>
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<p><i>A final note - we are hoping to plan a dinner/auction in May in Cardiff (I still need to contact the restaurant but hopefully that will go ahead). Plus we have two three-day courses coming up both in Cardiff in June and July.</i></p>
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<p>Thank you for your support.</p>
<p><i>Jennifer Hartley</i></p>
<p><b>Founder and director</b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.theatreversusoppression.com/" target="_blank">www.theatreversusoppression.com</a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="mailto:theatreversusoppression@gmail.com" target="_blank">theatreversusoppression@gmail.com</a></b></p>
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<p><br/> -There have been 8 big shows done by the theatre group done in different villages in the camp. There have been other more mini shows that are done at Coburwas during the practice.<br/> -During the 16 days of activists, these are days where youth go around teaching the community especially about HIV/AIDS, the camp chair person invited the theatre group to be working with him in different villages.<br/> -We have got testimonies from the community about the impact and changes the theatre has achieved in the lives of families. This was through community debate, Skits and Social talks.<br/> -Some of the topics we have played about (all a part of our lives in the camp) were poisoning, HIV/AIDS, family equality, drunkenness, prostitution among others.<br/> -Some villages have gone ahead inviting the theatre group to come and perform in their places.<br/> -Members have been attending weekly meetings, evaluations and rehearsals.<br/> -Members were able to positively contribute and using their talents, time and resources like money for the betterment of the community and the group.<br/> -Cooperation in acquiring instrument from churches, coburwas and buying of the fuel and other needs before the performance.<br/> -Sensitization using a megaphone and using the videos arranged by members. etc<br/> <br/> <b>Challenges:</b><br/> -Lack of microphone for better voice projection especially when people are many because it is hard to make them understand what players are saying.<br/> -Transport is a very big challenge, taking a video screen 4 miles carrying it on our heads in case there is no bicycle was not very easy.<br/> -Weather makes the roads impassable at times.</p>
<p>-Lack of uniform for the group.<br/> <br/> <b>Way forward:</b><br/> We are planning to continue making personal contributions and encouraging members to keep working hard. We encourage everyone to take part since we are a community work and being involved in changing families in our environment.<br/> We encourage every one to use his or her talent because some times it is one’s destiny.</p>
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<p>- sponsor a child on the Right to Learn programme</p>
<p>- donations</p>
<p>- fundraisers</p>
<p>- spreading the word about what we do</p>
<p>- buy our publications</p>
<p>- moral support is needed as much as financial!</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.theatreversusoppression.com/newsletter.htm">http://www.theatreversusoppression.com/newsletter.htm</a></p>Can Performance Change the World?tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2010-10-11:3152760:BlogPost:428682010-10-11T15:43:31.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">3 October. New York. Here for a 4 day conference ‘Can Performance Change the World?’ a big question to be addressed in 100 odd workshops. The Charity I have been volunteering and training with for the last two years in Cardiff, Theatre Versus Oppression (TVO) is presenting a session on…</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">3 October. New York. Here for a 4 day conference ‘Can Performance Change the World?’ a big question to be addressed in 100 odd workshops. The Charity I have been volunteering and training with for the last two years in Cardiff, Theatre Versus Oppression (TVO) is presenting a session on ‘Empowering Performances Through Alternative Approaches’, alongside projects from 39 countries.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">The walk to the All Stars venue through Times Square is entirely lit by giant digital screens shouting out all kinds of performances from Ted Danson’s latest series to two blokes with beards selling something, I have no idea what. Turning left down 42<sup>nd</sup> St the massive billboard anticipating Spiderman’s Broadway debut, Leonardo posing in the window of Madame Tussauds; a couple of blocks on from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Chez Josephine</i> restaurant in memory of the first international black icon Josephine Baker is the All Stars a space full of performance and rehearsal spaces open to the community – something we are so lacking in Cardiff – and apparently bought and paid for by the ‘community’ of supporters. I’m impressed – no arts council funding here – a place existing through pure passion and a desire for a space to play together.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">I learnt so much over the 4 days – while Jennifer Hartley presented TVO’s work in Wales and Uganda where our applied theatre techniques are being used to address Domestic Abuse, I went to workshops that addressed performance in the sense that we are all performers in our own lives and the projects and methods of how and why we tell these stories.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">I was inspired by Patch Adams who after a number of unsuccessful suicide attempts decided at 18, that if he was meant to live, he really needed a purpose. He decided it would be the creation of a free health service for all and that the key to good health was laughter and joy. He pledged to build a free hospital and to stop violence wherever he saw it by dressing as a clown. He’s 65 now, spends 300 days a year spreading joy and almost has his hospital.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">What a difference a purpose in your life makes. Carolyn Dorfman’s dance company performed with such emotional links to the stories they told with their bodies, many were moved to tears and I wished I’d done her workshop. The Performance of Blackness took us from slavery to a black president in an eloquent, challenging series of performances which interweaved the story and plays of the struggle to establish a theatre that performed our lives making theatre available to everyone regardless of background.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">I learnt about social therapy and watched a group of 10 people express very specific and intimate feelings in front of an audience. One woman was so moved by the Black performance workshop that she wept as she tried to articulate how it felt seeing her life played out in front of her. The discussion went from why she was upset, to thoughts of her mother’s red hair and how proud she would have been to see her sister on stage ‘Look at your sister, she’s so beautiful’.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">Between sessions revisiting the site of Stonewall, into The White Horse, one of Dylan Thomas’ last performance spaces; tramping the streets in the company of a long time local resident steeped in stories of battles to keep alive the memory of so many influential performances from the past.</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">Can performance change the world? Undoubtedly and in so many ways we haven’t even thought about here. Far away from the big shows I found myself dwelling on day to day performances. The people brought to the theatre by the enthusiasm of the supporters of the All Stars Centre. Robin whose husband had just died and had found a place to explore who she was, the finance director who had never seen avant garde theatre before yet found himself thinking about it for days after. </font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">My thought is for my own work – to challenge myself to be specific in my purpose. To tell stories in brave and authentic ways. To make sure every performance can change the world.</font></span></p>Jennifer Hartley gives TED talktag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2010-09-15:3152760:BlogPost:411272010-09-15T15:51:01.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
Jennifer Hartley is the founder and director of Theatre versus Oppression and she recently was invited to talk at the TEDx conference in Bangkok. She spoke about truth and perception and how this relates to the work of TVO.<br/>
Have a look!<br/>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5an8JHrOQ">www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5an8JHrOQ</a>
Jennifer Hartley is the founder and director of Theatre versus Oppression and she recently was invited to talk at the TEDx conference in Bangkok. She spoke about truth and perception and how this relates to the work of TVO.<br/>
Have a look!<br/>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5an8JHrOQ">www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5an8JHrOQ</a>What happened Next 2tag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2010-02-23:3152760:BlogPost:255882010-02-23T15:16:39.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
<p>This Sunday sees the second installment of What Happened Next?</p>
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<p>Last month 6 new plays kicked off their first 10' and the audeince said what they felt they liked, did not like and wanted to see happen next</p>
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<p>This Sunday at 7.30pm in Chapter - ask at Box Office for exact location - the 6 plays present the next 10' having taken into account - or completely ignored the audeince feedback.</p>
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<p>At the end of the plays this week Jennifer Hartley will be showing…</p>
<p>This Sunday sees the second installment of What Happened Next?</p>
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<p>Last month 6 new plays kicked off their first 10' and the audeince said what they felt they liked, did not like and wanted to see happen next</p>
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<p>This Sunday at 7.30pm in Chapter - ask at Box Office for exact location - the 6 plays present the next 10' having taken into account - or completely ignored the audeince feedback.</p>
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<p>At the end of the plays this week Jennifer Hartley will be showing techniques for developing what might happen next. Audience participation required but not essential - it's script in hand and you could just come for a laugh.</p>
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<p>it is a different way of developing new writing</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.theatrevesrsusoppression.com">www.theatrevesrsusoppression.com</a> for more info</p>
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<p>All welcome - donations £5 / £3.50 money raised goes to Kyangwali Refugee Camp</p>
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<p></p>What Happened Nexttag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2010-01-19:3152760:BlogPost:238852010-01-19T19:54:41.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
TVO presents 'What Happened Next'<br />
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The first ten minutes of 6 new plays, 6 writers, 6 directors and you, the audience<br />
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The first 10 minutes of a play, a writers idea - you offer your response. Next month .... the next 10 minutes<br />
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Chapter Arts Centre 31 January 2010<br />
7.30pm £5 donation for the Refugee Camp we work with in Uganda<br />
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come and join in
TVO presents 'What Happened Next'<br />
<br />
The first ten minutes of 6 new plays, 6 writers, 6 directors and you, the audience<br />
<br />
The first 10 minutes of a play, a writers idea - you offer your response. Next month .... the next 10 minutes<br />
<br />
Chapter Arts Centre 31 January 2010<br />
7.30pm £5 donation for the Refugee Camp we work with in Uganda<br />
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come and join ininvisible theatretag:community.nationaltheatrewales.org,2009-06-19:3152760:BlogPost:71232009-06-19T11:47:26.000ZSuzanne Phillipshttps://community.nationaltheatrewales.org/profile/SuzannePhillips
As part of the IKEA Cardiff collaboration with the charity AMuse myself and Jennifer Hartley put together a group of people who didn't know each other but had met during various workshops organised by Theatre Versus Oppression in Cardiff. We were going to do a radical reworkling of the morning of the wedding from Blood Wedding. Only it didn't work out like that....<br />
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for details of the how the invisible drama really became invisible see Jennifer's very entertaining blog of the event…
As part of the IKEA Cardiff collaboration with the charity AMuse myself and Jennifer Hartley put together a group of people who didn't know each other but had met during various workshops organised by Theatre Versus Oppression in Cardiff. We were going to do a radical reworkling of the morning of the wedding from Blood Wedding. Only it didn't work out like that....<br />
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for details of the how the invisible drama really became invisible see Jennifer's very entertaining blog of the event www.jshartley.com and there are some very interesting comments - how invisible Theatre was used post 9/11 was one