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While there are a number of groups in Canada that work with Forum Theatre techniques (e.g., Mixed Company Theatre, Branch Out Theatre, Theatre for Living) Stage Left Productions, based in Canmore, Alberta, has been recognized by Augusto Boal as on official Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed since 2005. [11]
Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal.It is one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). ). This relates to the engagement of spectators influencing and engaging with the performance as both spectators and actors, termed "spect-actors", with the power to stop and change the perform
Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed , a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements.
Invisible theatre was developed in Buenos Aires as public and participatory action that avoided police authority. The Brazilian Augusto Boal was in exile in Argentina from 1971 to 1976 and created his first invisible theatre experiment in collaboration with a group of actors. The performance took place in a busy restaurant at lunchtime, with ...
Augusto Boal’s popular theatre techniques are an important aspect and hallmark of Stage Left’s activities, from the company’s inception through to the present day. In 2005 the organization was officially endorsed by Boal as an International Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed in Canada. [1]
Theatre for development (TfD) is a type of community-based or interactive theatre practice that aims to promote civic dialogue and engagement.. Theatre for development can be a kind of participatory theatre that encourages improvisation and allows audience members to take roles in the performance, or it can be fully scripted and staged, with the audience simply observing.
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first developed in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal's techniques aim to use theatre as means of promoting social and political change through allowing the audience to take an active role in the creation of ...
The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented rise in “Popular Theatre” companies, such as Headlines Theatre (Vancouver), Company of Sirens (Toronto), and the Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba (Winnipeg), which utilized political theatre practices such agitprop, guerilla theatre, Brecht’s epic theatre techniques, and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of ...