This unit examines some of the ways in which theatre has been used in different times and places in order to make a difference; to explore, comment on and/or protest against social, political or environmental injustices in different times and places.
The theatre is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it. (Boal, 122)Theatre of the Oppressed
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Theatre, as the most public of artforms, has a particular part to play in the collective exploration of ideas, values and feelings - as a space and place in which society might be reshaped through the imagination.
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