Title: Dos Sillas y un Cajon
Subtitle: El Actor y la Imaginacion Relativa
Description: Dos sillas y un cajón: El actor y la imaginación relativa is an academic and artistic exploration of contemporary acting theory. Published in 2024 by Ediciones Peregrina (CenIEC/UPR), this work introduces the methodology of "Relative Imagination"—a pedagogical framework that challenges the actor to redefine physical and emotional space using minimal scenic elements.

The author, Edgar García Rivera, is a prominent figure in the Puerto Rican theatrical community and a professor at the University of Puerto Rico. This publication is officially documented in the UPR repository as a key contribution to 2024 performance studies and serves as both a practical manual and a theoretical resource for bilingual theater education.
Subjects: Relative Imagination (and the Spanish: Imaginación Relativa), Acting Theory, Contemporary Performance Pedagogy, Puerto Rican Theater, Bilingual Acting Method, Edgar García Rivera, ISBN 978-1-954664-13-5, Ediciones Peregrina, CenIEC UPR (Centro de Innovaciones Educativas y Culturales), 2024 Publication, Actor Training Manual, Physical Theater
Places: Puerto Rico, Miami, New York, Spain, Los Angeles
People: Benicio Del Toro, Jacobo Morales, Jean Louis Rodrigue, Ismael Cruz Cordoba, Josie de Guzman, Gladys Rodriguez, Gabriela Saker, Isabel Arraiza, Mario Roche, Tony Chiroldes, Leon Katz, Mel Shapiro, Jose Luis Ramos Escobar, Luz María Rondon, Modesto Lacen, Teo Castellanos, Michel Haussman
Time periods: t is a contemporary work (2024) that addresses the needs of the modern actor in a post-experimental theater world. The framework is born out of the Puerto Rican theatrical tradition, specifically developed and tested within the academic and artistic circuits of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).The "Relative Imagination": This is the core concept. It teaches actors how to create a vast, believable world using almost nothing. It explores how an actor’s imagination changes based on their relationship to their surroundings.The "setting" of the exercises involves just three objects: two chairs and one wooden crate (cajón). The book explains how these simple tools can be transformed into any location, emotion, or dramatic tension through the actor's technique.Because Edgar García Rivera operates in a bilingual and bicultural environment, the book is about the universal language of movement and imagination that transcends specific spoken languages.