Methodics
A. Boalio
Theatre of the Oppressed (TO)
method system tree
Newspaper Theatre – ten techniques involving the transformation of journalistic texts into theatrical scenes – consists of the combination of Images and Words to reveal in the former, meanings which are hidden in the latter.
Legislative Theatre is a set of processes which mixes Forum Theatre and the conventional rituals of a parliamentary chamber or assembly, with the objective of arriving at the formulation of coherent and viable bills of law.
Direct Actions - sometimes you don't need to act out possible solutions on stage, it's much more effective to take direct actions here and now! It can be very different actions and deeds: protests, a call to the responsible authority or something else.
The Invisible show can be presented in any location where its drama could really occur or has already occurred (in the street or the square, in the supermarket or the fair, in the queue for the bus or the cinema . . .). Actors and audience meet on the same level of dialogue and power. There is no antagonistic relationship between the auditorium and stage, rather the two are superposed. This is Invisible Theatre.
Augusto Boal's methods are born from The Word, The Sound, The Image. Each leaf of this tree is an integral part of it, connected to the roots and the earth.
Augusto Boal's methods are born from The Word, The Sound, The Image. Each leaf of this tree is an integral part of it, connected to the roots and the earth.
Augusto Boal's methods are born from The Word, The Sound, The Image. Each leaf of this tree is an integral part of it, connected to the roots and the earth.
The fruits which fall to the ground serve to reproduce themselves by Multiplication.
The analytical process occurs with the Introspective Techniques of the Rainbow of Desires which, using words and, especially, images, enables the theatricalisation of introjected oppressions.
On the trunk of the tree grow, first, the Games, because they bring together two essential characteristics of life in society; they have rules, as does society, which are necessary in order for the Games to be enacted; but they also require creative freedom, so that the Game, or life, is not transformed into servile obedience. Without rules, there is no game, without freedom, there is no life.
Solidarity with our fellows is an essential part of the Theatre of the Oppressed.
In Image theatre, we refuse to use words and therefore develop other senses, less usual channels of receiving information.
Forum Theatre: perhaps the most democratic form of the Theatre of the Oppressed and certainly the best known and most practised throughout the world, uses or can use all the resources of all known theatrical forms.
The objective of the whole tree is to bring forth fruits, seeds and flowers: this is our desired goal, in order that the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) may seek not only to understand reality, but to transform it to our liking.
