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'''Forum theatre''' was a method developed by Augusto Boal in the Latin Americas during the 70s[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre]. It was also called Theatre of the Oppressed.
 
'''Forum theatre''' was a method developed by Augusto Boal in the Latin Americas during the 70s[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre]. It was also called Theatre of the Oppressed.
  
In this process the '''actors or audience members could halt a performance''', often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The '''audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out''' on-stage in an attempt '''to change the outcome''' of what they were seeing.
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In this process the '''actors or audience members could halt a performance''', often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The '''audience would suggest different actions''' for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt '''to change the outcome''' of what they were seeing.
  
  
 
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Revision as of 21:06, 24 April 2013

Forum theatre was a method developed by Augusto Boal in the Latin Americas during the 70s[1]. It was also called Theatre of the Oppressed.

In this process the actors or audience members could halt a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing.