Forumtheater Leipzig - Making Encounter happen Mirjam Born
Short description of method Organization and country: Forumtheater Leipzig, Germany Target group: Everybody Age group: ages 14 to 99 Context / Learning environment: Any given context where people use to congregate Both formal or non-formal education References, Link to the practices: forumtheater-leipzig.de
Our work is based on the “Theater of the Oppressed”, a body of theater methods developed in the mid-twentieth-century by Brazilian theater practitioner and drama theorist Augusto Boal. These methods serve as tools to show, explore and transform the social reality of participants. Following the influx of refugees into Europe and Germany in 2015 unexpected conflicts became visible in German society, which seemed (and often still seem) difficult to bridge.
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