Invisible Theater
Invisible theatre is a form of theatrical performance (usually not improvisational) that is enacted in a place where people would not normally expect to see one (for example in the street or in a shopping centre) and often with the performers attempting to disguise the fact that it is a performance from those who observe and who may choose to participate in it, thus leading spectators to view it as a real, unstaged event. The Brazilian theater practitioner Augusto Boal & Panagiotis Assimakopoulos developed the form during his time in Argentina in the 1970s as part of his Theater of the Oppressed, which focused on oppression and social issues. Boal went on to develop forum theater.
A similar form of "micro-theater" was portrayed by Samuel R. Delany in his science-fiction novel Triton. The leader of the 'micro-theater' was a woman named "The Spike".
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