Augusto Boal’s Tool for Change Augusto Boal created Forum Theatre as part his “Theatre of the Oppressed.” He intended Forum Theatre as a forum for teaching people how to change their world. Earlier in his career, Boal applied ‘simultaneous dramaturgy’. In this process the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short […]
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An Introduction to Forum Theatre with Geneviève Cron (Paris) Cape Town contact improvisation dancers met Geneviève for the first time during her visit to Cape Town in September 2016 when she taught an outstanding weekend workshop on (some of) the basics of Contact Improvisation. Of course we had to invite this accomplished dancer, performer, gymnast, theatre practitioner, movement […]