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Theatre of the Oppressed was born in 1971, in Brazil, under the very young form of Newspaper Theatre , with the specific goal of dealing with local problems – soon, it was used all over the country. Forum Theatre came into being in Peru, in 1973, as part of a Literacy Program; we thought it would be good only for South America– now it is practiced in more than 70 countries. In Europe, TO expanded and the Rainbow of Desire came into being – first to understand psychological problems, later even to create characters in any play. Back in Brazil, the Legislative Theatre was born to help the Desire of the population to become Law – which it did at last 13 times. Right now, the Subjunctive Theatre is coming slowly into being. We discovered that all those forms, independently where they had been created, could be developed and used all around the world, because they are simply a Human Language.
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TO was used by peasants and workers; later, by teachers and students; now, also by artists, social workers, psychotherapists, NGOs... At first, in small, almost clandestine places. Now in the streets, schools, churches, trade-unions, regular theatres, prisons...
Theatre of the Oppressed is the Game of Dialogue: we play and learn together. All kinds of Games must have Discipline - clear rules that we must follow. At the same time, Games have absolute need of creativity and Freedom. TO is the perfect synthesis between the antithetic Discipline and Freedom. Without Discipline, there is no Social Life; without Freedom, there is no Life.
The Discipline of our Game is our belief that we that we must re-establish the right of everyone to exist in dignity.
We believe that all of us are more, and much better, than what we think we are. We believe in solidarity. Our Freedom is to invent ways to help to humanize Humanity, freely invading all fields of human activities: social, pedagogical, political, artistic... Theatre is a Language and so it can be used to speak about all human concerns, not to be limited to theatre itself.
We believe in Peace, not in Passivity!
Above all, we believe that the Theatre of the Oppressed is of, about, by and for the Oppressed, as it is clear in our Declaration of Principles. If you agree with this, we certainly agree with you.
Resource:
http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org/en/index.php?nodeID=2&country_id=66&continent_id=5
Theatre of Oppressed in Afghanistan: In response to past, current instability and dubious human rights situation, several participatory theatre activities have been carried out in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2007 by United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and Afghanistan Human Rights & Democracy Organizations (AHRDO) in collaboration with International Center for Transition Justice (ICTJ). As a result, AHRDO recently became a national platform for theatre of Oppressed and Playback, and implemented several projects and trained 8 key staff of AHRDO and 30 national and international Organizations as means for educations, conflict resolutions, peace building, civic education, transition Justice and et
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AHRDO International Performance. The experts’ team of Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) have been officially invited by Brown University, Read More... AHRDO/FOSI Transitional Justice Program. Recently, Foundation for Open Society Institute (FOSI), a Swiss charitable foundation awarded Afghanistan Human Rights & Democracy Organization Read more... New York Training notice Mr. Salim, one of the AHRDO Executive Member and Playback Theatre Practitioner has been invited to attend The Centre for Playback Theatre’s Read more ... New Women Leadership Society On a purely new initiative to promote women leadership in Afghanistan, AHRDO&FES in collaboration with Kabul University have begun to conduct Read more ...
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