Exploring Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre as pedagogies in nursing education

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 104940
Author(s):  
Vanessa Van Bewer ◽  
Roberta L. Woodgate ◽  
Donna Martin ◽  
Frank Deer
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Forum Theatre

scholarly journals Reimagining Parenting Possibilities: Towards Intimate Justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Ignagni ◽  
Ann Fudge Schormans
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Social Dilemmas ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Transformative Potential

At the heart of this paper is a collaboratively created script representing a line of analysis from the Reimagining Parenting Possibilities Project. The script is performed as a forum theatre scene used to disseminate findings from this ongoing research project. Forum theatre, an exemplar of Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed,” invites audience members into a scene, inventing through embodied performance and improvisation analyses and interventions in shared social dilemmas (Boal, 2006). The project rests upon our joint investments in exploring how the denial and containment of parenthood for people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities stems from enduring ableist views as to who is deemed “fit” to raise future citizens, and related efforts to erase disability. We introduce this work with a prologue – offering context for the ableist dynamic and intimate injustices that unfold in the scene. We also provide some background on how we developed the scene, attending to the democratizing and transformative potential of our methodology. Finally, by way of an epilogue, we sketch a number of questions about the scene’s potential to promote intimate and disability justice.

scholarly journals Where is My Sweet Potato? Creating Change through Forum Theatre with Street Children in Burundi

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Interactive Theatre ◽  
Opening Up

ABSTRACT This paper examines the innovative use of Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (Forum Theatre) with a group of 30 street children and young people in East Africa. Drawing upon a project in Burundi, this paper reveals how participants utilized the process of performance making through Forum Theatre as a platform to make visible problems in their lives, and a vehicle to challenge inequalities, abuse and violence. The authors demonstrate how the adoption of this methodology raised questions about interactive theatre as creative activism and a tool for opening up possibilities for dialogue with a community-based audience. This paper illuminates ways in which street children, explored, examined and problematized their lived experience, through the creative lens of Forum Theatre. It argues that this methodology generated a sense of collective consciousness, through which the children and young people created personal and social change, which extended beyond the life of the project.

Between popular traditions and forum theatre: Playing on the borders of Theatre of the Oppressed

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Marcia Pompeo Nogueira ◽  
Reonaldo Manoel Gonçalves ◽  
Tim Prentki
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Forum Theatre

Three Stories from the Trenches: The Theatre of the Oppressed in the Midst of War

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Forum Theatre

From Israel, Liberia, and Iraq, where conflict and war are the rule, come stories about performances and workshops in the tradition of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. The author found both strengths and limitations in Forum Theatre.

THEATRE THERAPY TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN SOCIAL REHABILITATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Marina Igorevna DOLZHENKOVA ◽  
Olga Alekseyevna DOROZHKINA ◽  
Larisa Aleksandrovna ROMANINA ◽  
Oksana Germanovna PROKHOROVA
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Playback Theatre ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Social Rehabilitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Game Therapy ◽  
Experimental Technology

The technologies of theatre therapy in modern social rehabilitation are presented, the components of the pair of theatre system are revealed: game therapy; hospital clownery; psychodrama; psychomelodrama; satidrama; figurative psychodrama; pesso-therapy; psychogymnastics; “theatre of the oppressed”; forum theatre; “political theatre”; invisible theatre; theatre of memories; playback theatre; theatre of homeless artists or other unprotected categories; theatre of sports. It is noted that theatre therapy is extremely important for the social rehabilitation of children. We discuss some of the most outstanding achievements of the experimental technology theatre therapy in different countries: USA (project “Invisible People”); Greece; Russia (Project “Invizibl people” or “People Invisible”; All-Russian Festival of Special Theatres “ProTeatr”; project “Ariadne's Thread”; project “Touch-Ables”; “Theatre of Open-Hearted”; “ARTель inspiration”; “NeFoрмат”; “Speak Freely” (L.V. Soloveva)). It is indicated that by means of theatre therapy there is an improvement of skills of conscious action in the conditions of dramatic work, processes of self-knowledge in the context of development of emotional-strong-willed and intellectual-cognitive spheres of the personality are stimulated. The implementation of art therapy technologies in the modern practice of social rehabilitation is extremely relevant and in demand. That is why so important theoretical and methodological justification of formation and promising directions of development of these technologies, as well as creating the appropriate database information and methodological support that takes into account the latest advances in medical and psycho-pedagogical branches of scientific knowledge. Also important specialized programs for retraining and advanced training of social workers, taking into account innovative developments in the field of social rehabilitation, including technologies of theatre therapy.

Transformational learning for health professionals through a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satendra Singh ◽  
Juhi Kalra ◽  
Sanjoy Das ◽  
Purnima Barua ◽  
Navjeevan Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Transformational Learning ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Likert Score

Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) is a powerful participatory tool for communities to examine their struggles against oppression. The healthcare community has problems inherent to complex, unequal power equations, and TO may be a useful means to understand and respond to their struggle. A 3-day workshop on TO was facilitated by the authors in the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS) in Dehradun, India, in August 2017. The workshop culminated in the ‘Forum Theatre’, which included five short plays, each depicting a struggle due to real-life oppression faced by one or the other participant. The audience (about 200 invited members of the HIMS community) chose one play depending on the struggle with which they identified most. That play was ‘forumed’: spectators were invited to replace the struggling person and demonstrate how they would handle the oppression. Over the next week, participants reflected on the workshop through a structured online questionnaire. The feedback (n=16/27 participants; response rate 59.3%) was subjected to descriptive statistics and to qualitative analysis. The highest average Likert score (out of a maximum of 5) was given to the following items: TO engages senses and emotions (4.6±0.50), can help inculcate ethical behaviour (4.4±0.81), identifies conflict (4.4±0.51), and resolves issues of attitude, behaviour, communication, diversity and empathy (4.4±0.73). The Forum Theatre was reported to be a means to “express emotions and opinions and to simultaneously gather the same from others”; “make people push their own limits”; “bring out social problems in public”; “examine the root causes behind lived experience”; “provide context for understanding and for exploring alternatives”; and “convert thoughts to action.” In conclusion, TO is an engaging activity that identifies conflict; participants’ initial reactions suggest that it may initiate change in the ABCDE attributes (attitude, behaviour, communication, diversity, ethics and empathy) of medical professionals.

scholarly journals Emancipatory Theatre and Performative Didactics

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Venke Aure ◽  
Karin Brunvathne Bjerkestrand ◽  
Anna Songe-Møller
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Art Educator ◽  
Forum Theatre

This article is based on several years of empirical observation, gathered from theatre practice, in which Karin B. Bjerkestrand and Anna Songe-Møller developed what is known as “Solidarity Forum Theatre” (SFT), a form of applied drama. This theatre form is based primarily on the Brazilian, Augusto Boal’s, Theatre of the Oppressed (Boal, 2006). Bjerkestrand and Songe-Møller used and further developed Boal’s theatre principle in a collaboration with various immigrant groups and drama-/theatre students. The intention has been to use the liberating potential into which this form of theatre invites us. In this article, Bjerkestrand and Songe-Møller present the theoretical groundwork, the underlying principles, and examples of SFT in action. One of the participants’ stories in particular have been used to concretize the liberating aspect that arose in the theatre experiences. In relation to this Solidarity Forum Theatre practice, science theorist and art educator Venke Aure presents epistemological and didactic reflections.  

scholarly journals The CRAB Workshop: Using Forum Theatre and Cognitive Rehearsal to Address Bullying in Nursing Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy O'Flynn-Magee ◽  
Patricia Rodney ◽  
Skye Maitland ◽  
Kate Proznick ◽  
Hannah Turner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Forum Theatre

scholarly journals Teatro do Oprimido como método para a práxis da Psicologia Social Comunitária e Educação Popular no meio rural

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Thelma Maria Grisi Veloso ◽  
Marcos Pablo Martins Almeida ◽  
Arthur Marcell Campos Arruda ◽  
Lisa Martha Silva David ◽  
Mateus Rafael Uchoa Dantas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The City

This goal of this article is to reflect on the contributions of the method of the Theatre of the Oppressed used by a university extension experiment at a rural settlement in the city of Campina Grande (Paraíba/Brazil). This experiment was based both on Social Community Psychology and on Popular Education addressed to physical education and affectivity, envisaging stimulating and strengthening listening opportunities and the problematization of reality, supporting the autonomy and social leadership. The psycho-pedagogical workshops carried out with a group of children and a group of adolescents was one of the methodological instruments used. The workshops intended to stimulate the taste for reading, creativity, and the critical reflection and autonomy by using reading and social strategies, recreational games and different artistic languages, such as the method of the Theatre of the Oppressed. This method was also used through the presentation of a play for the community, which was assembled according to the forum-theatre technique based on information obtained in the settlement. Starting from the report after three workshops and after the forum-theatre experiment they concluded that the method of the Theatre of the Oppressed aligns to the theoretical perspectives adopted and contributes to the development of more participative, critical and solidarity postures envisaging social changes.

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