the imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place
we are all trying to get to”. “Six Degrees of Separation” by John Guare ...
IMAGINATION in THEATER Omar Sangare, Ph.D.
“The imagination. That’s our out. Our imagination teaches us our limits and then how to grow beyond those limits. The imagination says Listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 am voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I’m afraid of (...) It’s there to sort out your nightmare, to show you the exit from the maze of your nightmare, to transform the nightmare into dreams that become your bedrock. If we don’t listen to that voice, it dies. It shrivels. It vanishes (...) the imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to”
“Six Degrees of Separation” by John Guare
“Imagination: The power of conceiving and giving artistic form to that which is not existent, known, or experienced”
Encyclopedia Britannica
• nature of imagination • products of imagination • artistic forms of imagination
What is imagination?
“The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to”
“Six Degrees of Separation” by John Guare
Where is the place of our illusive ideas?
Understanding Body Language • head g scientific • chest g romantic • hips g action
What exactly comes from imagination?
“Our imagination teaches us our limits and then how to grow beyond those limits. The imagination says Listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 am voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I’m afraid of ”
“Six Degrees of Separation” by John Guare
Tell me the dreams from your imagination
“Dreams are the fulfillment of a wish”
Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939
How to present our imagination through the theatre arts?
“Probability” — as a duty to introduce something that is likely to happen or exist
Aristotle, 384-322 BCE.
“The place for Shakespeare is the whole world, the action is the whole human race, and the time is the eternity”
Heinrich Haine, 1797-1856
The Tragedy of Hamlet directed by Peter Brook France, 2004
the imagination through: • literature (John Guare) • vocabulary (Encyclopedia Britannica) • physical behavior (Understanding Body Language) • psychology (Sigmund Freud) • history (Aristotle and Shakespeare) • theatre arts (Peter Brook)
• imagination takes place in our creative brain and we all have access to it • imagination inspires us to artistic creations and scientific discoveries • we should freely express the imagination to enrich the world