THEA 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dalit, Augusto Boal, Forum Theatre
21 Apr 2015
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What is it: giving voice to those without opportunity to have a voice, creative way to get oppressed heard. Theatre of the oppressed = theatre methodology that facilitates the participation of. Audience/actors in the search for solutions to social problems. Context: latin america, cold war and global capitalism. Augusto boal"s major work: theatre of the oppresed (1973) Drama forms of theatre of the oppresed: simultaneous dramaturgy, image theatre, forum theatre. Boal thought this would make a visual representation. Aristotelian aesthethics: passive states: relationship with actor + audience = passive. Augusto boal wanted to move them into action. Boal argues that brecht"s style of theatre is didactic. In brecht theatre, audience remains viewers and reactors: this caused the rise of spect-actors. Boal invited audience to participate and he found that they were empowered to imagine and practice change. Key features of rehearsal for social change: to analyze and discuss problems of oppression and power, explore group solutions to these problems.
