Since 1999, (itp) has served CU-Boulder and the surrounding communities by providing professionally scripted/improvisational performances and facilitated discussions of social issues. These performances become a springboard for dialogue between the audience, characters, and facilitators.
The conversation that evolves provides a unique opportunity for groups to explore complex issues while developing greater community strength, creativity and cultural competence.
(itp) is inspired by the vision of Augusto Boal, who created a theatre that eliminated spectators and created "spectactors" - audience members who are central to the success of the performance. (itp) realizes this vision by crafting scenes where audience members can identify and empathize with all of the characters.
Immediately after the performance, the audience becomes part of the show by asking the characters questions that lead to greater understanding and empathy. The characters then leave, and the facilitators guide a discussion of the concerns that are strongest for the audience members.
Social Issues
Ability/DisabilityIncluding scenes on: creating accessible and inclusive
communities, challenges facing individuals with disabilities
Body Image
Including scenes on: eating disorders, the role of media,
men and body image
Heterosexism & Homophobia
Including scenes on: bias-motivated assaults, roommates,
coming out to friends and family
Identity
Including scenes on: intersections of identity,
multiracial identity.
Privilige/Oppression
Including scenes on: dynamics of privilege and oppression,
male privilege, white privilege.
Racism
Including scenes on: bias-motivated incidents, challenges of interracial relationships,
being the only member of a racial/ethnic minority at work/school/an event, anti-Semitism.
Sexism & Sexual Assault
Including scenes on: dating relationships, the 1st-Year Student Orientation program
'Just Another Party'.
Socio-Economic Status/Social Class
Including scenes on: work/school/life balance, money and relationships.
Suicide
...and more.
(itp) would love to perform for you and your class or organization!
But we need some information first. Please send us an email with the following information:
Organization / School Name
Contact Name
Contact Position Title
Email adress
Phone Number
Class / Event Name
Class / Event Location
Class / Event Time
Estimated Audience Size
Specific Issues you'd like to be discussed
Any additional information
We look forward to hearing from you and working with you!
But we need some information first. Please send us an email with the following information:
Organization / School Name
Contact Name
Contact Position Title
Email adress
Phone Number
Class / Event Name
Class / Event Location
Class / Event Time
Estimated Audience Size
Specific Issues you'd like to be discussed
Any additional information
We look forward to hearing from you and working with you!
At an (itp) performance, audience members are allowed to safely discuss pertinent issues that are often not afforded the time and space for public examination and reflection. (itp) allows people to take a step back and think: Is this really how I want my community to be? And what's even more amazing, is that (itp) also provided the tools and supports for a community members to become actively involved in shaping the world around them. What a gift that is! On a single night, in a single performance an audience member at an (itp) program is ever so subtly reminded that they have a voice that can help change the world.
-Alumni of (itp)
-Alumni of (itp)
Thank you all so much for another amazing performance last week. I am always so engaged and amazed by the conversations you manage to draw out of a group.
-Student staff and audience member
-Student staff and audience member
I have attended a number of performances by the Interactive Theatre Project, and I consider them one of the outstanding educational/cultural resources available to the CU student body and the community. They accomplish audience engagement in a unique way that otherwise does not happen on serious and controversial issues, requiring people to think and consider perspectives other than their own.
-Staff member at CU Boulder
-Staff member at CU Boulder
Again after 30 years in the business I have never seen anything like it. That is the day that I decided to become involved in interactive theatre. It is wonderful teaching and learning for the performers (faculty) and the audience (students, community and faculty). I only wish two things – I wish I had found it earlier in my career, and I wish I was doing more of it. Oh also, I wish more of us were doing it for ourselves and for our students.
-Faculty at CU Boulder
-Faculty at CU Boulder
Feel free to contact us at any time, with any way you choose:
By E-mail
By mail
The Interactive Theatre ProjectUCB 103
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO, 80309
By phone
Rebecca Brown Adelman, M.A.303.492.4307
Trenton Norman
303.735.2699
Stop by the office
We are located in the Center for Community, N320 within the Center for Multicultural Affairs.Interested in Joining Interactive Theatre Project (itp)?
Are you a CU student?
Passionate about social justice?
Like to perform?
Want to engage in democratic dialogue about issues important to you and your campus community?
Come audition for (itp)!
Audition Information: Auditions are currently closed for the fall 2012 semester.
Please check our website at the start of the spring 2013 semester for future audition information.
If you have a question, send us an email at:
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