Political Theatre & Performance
Theatre of the Oppressed
Category
Coined by Augusto Boal, this term has been adopted internationally to denote a way of creating theatre and conducting paratheatrical work to achieve his aims of social franchisement and agency.
Video
The film is a documentary about the life of a female shaman Kim Keum-hwa, who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl and oppressed for following superstitions as an adult. It depicts how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honoured as a national treasure of Korea because of her outstanding artistic talents throughout Korea’s tumultuous history. The film is based on the autobiography “Bidankkob Neom-Se” by Kim Keum-hwa.
Practitioner
Bertolt Brecht reformed various aspects of 20th-century theatre. He created an acting process, theories of dramaturgy and performance, a performance style, and wrote hundreds of plays and poems.
- Brazil
- Community
- Facilitating Freedom
- Forum Theatre
- Games and Play
- Ideology
- Image Theatre
- Invisible Theatre
- Legislative Theatre
- Newspaper Theatre
- Non-theatre contexts
- Paolo Freire
- Paratheatre
- Participation
- Real-life Difficulties
- Rehearsal
- Rehearsal of Revolution
- Social Context
- Spectator
- Text
- The Joker
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Practitioner
The inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system and ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’.
Category
Improvisation is the spontaneous invention of performance. But while it specifies a particular form, elements of improvisation are intrinsic to all performance and the quality of liveness it produces.
Category
Not strictly theatre, these are mass group events or performances that generally take place in public spaces in order to influence public opinion by occupying or exploiting the power of those sites.