Theater/ The creative Arts

Theater/ The creative Arts

1. Used in emergency and conflict/ Post conflict settings

2. Rights based framework

   • Necessity as oppose to desirable
     • The need for expression of experience
       • Power of story-telling
         • colonialisim removed popular traditions installing european ones
           • colonialism removed power from the locals
           • European drama: shakespeare
   • IHL: International Humanitarian Law
     • Economic/ social and cultural rights
       • Still seen as an 'aspirational' right

3. Performance Theory

   • Boals father of Theatre for Development
     • Image theatre
     • Forum theatre
     • undermining the status quo for social change
   • relationship between performer/ spectator and functionality

4. Who is in control of the stories told?

   • Does this impact production?
   • in whose best interest?
   • Patronage / funders

5. Process

   • Level of participation
   • Whose values/ taste?
   • Forum/ playback/ indiginous methods / storytelling / celebratory?
     • Includes the 'joker' an intermidery between actor and audience
   • Who drives it?
   • Ownership

6. TIE: Theatre in Education

   • Cardboard citizens project
   • Provocative performance

7. Participatory theatre

   • Applied theatre
     • From people who don't usually make theatre
   • working from people's reality

8. means of catharsis / relief

9. Powerful tool of oppression

10. Making and remaking their lives

11. FREIR

    • Liberation struggles in Africa
    • 1970's
    • Traditional participation
    • Dialogue
    • Investigative
    • Community participation
    • Pedagogy of oppression
      • development as maintaining and upholding poverty
      • The need to listen to the poor rather than communicate to them

12. Participants as producers

13. Development in solving collective problems