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Don't Poke The Bear - A Project Report, Nicole Kontolefa, Grace Cannon
Don't Poke The Bear - A Project Report, Nicole Kontolefa, Grace Cannon
Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal
In 2018, four applied theatre practioners created a forum theatre play and workshop for a small Wyoming community. They wanted to engage participants in a dialogue about inclusion, racism and homophobia, in particular how it manifests in a state known as the "Equality State."
Forum theatre focuses on a protagonist experiencing oppression and how they may break their own bonds. In this report, two of the facilitators and creators reflect on how using forum theatre to follow the actions (or inaction) of a potential ally in a play about the exclusion of a gay woman of color was useful in …
A Continued Theatre Of The Oppressed, Tania S. Cañas Dr
A Continued Theatre Of The Oppressed, Tania S. Cañas Dr
Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal
Abstract: A Continued Theatre of the Oppressed
There have been calls within the Theatre of the Oppressed community for a development of a poetics of the oppressor, a form of Theatre of the Oppressor; as an extension and reimagining of Theatre of the Oppressed (Chinyowa 2014, Harrison &Weinblatt 2011) Such calls centre on three main points: a less binary framing of oppressor-oppressed, developing allyship from the oppressor who is in a resourced position to make material structural changes, and finally as a call towards an increased dialogue through inclusion. Theatre of the Oppressed has a close relationship with social change, …