Put a little Boal in your talkback: a playwright offers a new interactive forum that goes beyond the banality of the post-performance discussion.
American Theatre, December, 2005 by Brooks, Laurie
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The last lines are spoken; the theatre goes dark. Applause. When the lights rise, instead of a curtain call, the actors appear--still in character--to engage in a post-performance dialogue with the audience. What seems to be completely improvised is, in fact, a carefully structured, after-play event.
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