Play role is a very important tool to educate in all countries but it is very special in Africa and countries where literacy rate is low and poverty is high.
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Yes, theatre is an incredibly powerful tool. The photo attached to your blog is wonderful. It shows how mobile theatre can be as well.
I want to encourage people to see the two tactical notebooks we have on the use of theatre for human rights work. Look under the link called "Tactical Notebooks" and you'll find under Asia: Action Theatre: Initiating Changes by Motahar Akand, Ain O Salish Kendra (AIK) and under Africa, in French, Le Théâtre populaire pour briser le silence autour des violences faites aux femmes* (Using Popular Theater to Break the Silence around Violence Against Women - English Introduction) By Oulimata Gaye, Résau Africain de Développement Integré (RADI), Senegal.
Theater to teach
Thank you for your work!
on activism through theatre
the action theatre strategy teaches people, so the dynamics are between the teacher and the novice in how to use theatre. I think the dynamics could be more intense if theatre became a means not merely to correct the "other" but to reflect on oneself. I am associated with groups who are engaged in participatory action research. animators facilitate their discussions into internal problems within the community and in facing the outsiders. this leads them to experiment with possible answers. Some of these marginalised groups-socially excluded on account of their occupations-have also used theatre to first intensify their own understanding of what keeps them apart, and secondly it projects this view to those who perpetrate discrimination.
The difference with the action theatre is that the community - not in the larger sense of the village, which after all encompasses different group and class interests - begins to analyse its own limitations and the imposed constraints. In this way the theatre is also a means of reflection.
I think it is important if the theatre is followed by action followed by reflection or action followed by theatre followed by reflection.
on activism through theatre
the action theatre strategy teaches people, so the dynamics are between the teacher and the novice in how to use theatre. I think the dynamics could be more intense if theatre became a means not merely to correct the "other" but to reflect on oneself. I am associated with groups who are engaged in participatory action research. animators facilitate their discussions into internal problems within the community and in facing the outsiders. this leads them to experiment with possible answers. Some of these marginalised groups-socially excluded on account of their occupations-have also used theatre to first intensify their own understanding of what keeps them apart, and secondly it projects this view to those who perpetrate discrimination.
The difference with the action theatre is that the community - not in the larger sense of the village, which after all encompasses different group and class interests - begins to analyse its own limitations and the imposed constraints. In this way the theatre is also a means of reflection.
I think it is important if the theatre is followed by action followed by reflection or action followed by theatre followed by reflection.
Theatre to educate
This is a great reflection on the power of action theatre. The model with this kind of reflection/action cycle identified here--research followed by theatre, followed by action, followed by reflection or action, followed by theatre, followed action, etc -- is exactly the process that ASK in Bangladesh uses. I agree that theatre can be so much more powerful even when the components of reflection and action are included. Theatre allows people to initially take a step back from their lives and see what is happening from a different perspective. This creates a new opportunity for then reflecting on what is reality and what and who about that reality has potential for change.