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Theatre of the Oppressed Training
5 August - 27 November 2011Our courses take place in London and are led by Adrian Jackson, Augusto Boal's translator and the founder of Cardboard Citizens. Since its creation in 1991, the company has been applying Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in homeless hostels, community centres, schools and theatres – using Boal’s techniques to engage and inspire the most marginalised. Adrian has taught Theatre of the Oppressed techniques alongside Augusto Boal and independently for over 15 years.
RAINBOW OF DESIRES - An introduction to Boal’s “Theatre and Therapy”
October 2012
The personal is political, and the political is personal. Rainbow of Desires is the over-arching name given by Augusto Boal to a range of exercises, games and techniques on using the power of theatre to identify, analyse and respond to “internalised oppression” and to seek to understand its origins.
These three days will give participants an understanding of Rainbow of Desire techniques, their relation to Augusto Boal’s other tools such as Forum Theatre, and their practical applications, from the operation of a therapeutic group to the rehearsal of a play.
FORUM THEATRE TRAINING WEEK
November 2012
Throughout this intensive weeklong course featuring a demonstration performance from Cardboard Citizens, participants will investigate the theory and practice of Forum Theatre.
A number of simple games and exercises centred on trust, confidence and group integration will be introduced, enabling participants to lead workshop sessions within their own group or communities.Participants will look at how to devise a Forum Theatre piece and how to conduct a public Forum session. The course also includes an introduction to Legislative Theatre, a
method in which Forum Theatre is used as a basis for the formulation of policy, rules
or legislation, in any body from school to government.
FORUM THEATRE FACILITATOR (“JOKER”) MASTERCLASS WEEKEND
March 2013
This intensive two-day course will focus on the skills of the joker (facilitator/
‘difficultator’) and the dramaturgy of Forum Theatre plays. The workshops will be
led by experiences of participants and will include sessions about: generating
participation, stimulating nervous audiences, ‘difficult’ interventions, working with
particular constituencies, and how and when to end a Forum show.
- Adrian Jackson
Adrian Jackson is the founder and artistic director of Cardboard Citizens. He translated five books by Augusto Boal into English, and was a frequent collaborator with him. He has worked with a wide variety of communities in the UK and in development and academic contexts in Europe, Africa and Asia,
using techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed. He is working on a book to be entitled The Art of the Joker.
"I have attended two training courses with Cardboard Citizens and found the training comprehensive and so helpful. I run a small theatre company and it was my wish to start taking forum theatre into secondary schools. We have staged two forum theatre productions this year one on tobacco smoking and the other about teenage pregnancy.
Thank you for running an excellent training course in forum theatre, if you hadn't, we wouldn't have been able to deliver these two productions."
Ros
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