Turkar Coker is an actor, director, playwright and teacher. His most recently staged play was La MaMa E.T.C. production of "Sarajevo Mon Amour" (also directed by him). He, together with Augusto Boal, was a founding member of The Center for the Theatre of Oppressed in N.Y.C. He acted, directed and taught in New York, Toronto and Europe. His present multi-media project "A Madman" will open in N.Y. in June and will travel Festivals in Canada and Europe. His new play "Oedip" will open in Winter 98 in N.Y. City.
NOTE: A ten minutes fragment from "A Madman" will be performed at The Field's Fielday Festival on Sunday, March 29, 8:00 P.M. at Gowanus Art Exchange (near Park Slope).
Address is: 295 Douglas Street, Brooklyn (betw. 3rd. & 4th. Streets). Take R train
to Union Street or 2, 3, 4, 5, D, B, Q, N trains to Atlantic or Pacific subway stops.
For further info on Fielday, please call The Field at: (212)691-6969 or E-mail at: thefield@aol.com
conducted by
Turkar Coker
This introductory workshop offers a spectrum of exercises, games, and problem-solving techniques, such as The Image of Images, that explore relations of power and group solutions to concrete problems through living body imagery. Aimed at transforming spectators into "spect-actors" - protagonists of theatrical action - Image Theatre, helps develop dialog, critical thinking and self exploration. The participants in Image Theatre make still images of their lives, feelings, experiences, oppressions; groups suggest titles, themes or subjects, and then individuals 'sculpt' three- dimensional images under these titles, using their own and others' bodies as the 'clay'. However, the image work never remains static, the frozen image is simply the starting point for or prelude to the action, which is revealed in the dynamisation process, the bringing to life of the images and the discovery of whatever direction or intention is innate in them.