Adult Short Courses
Julian Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed, 2 or 3 April 2010
Theatre of the Oppressed is the over-arching title given to the ensemble of techniques and
approaches to theatre pioneered by the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal.
The common element of the various branches of this work is that all seek to make the power of
theatre as a force for change available to everyone.
This workshop aims to provide participants with practical hands-on knowledge and tools
enabling you to implement the Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in your own work.
For more information on the Theatre of the Oppressed - www.theatreoftheoppressed.org
The cost to attend this full day session at the Academy is £75 per person. To download more specific course details, please click here.
For further information please contact dramaworks@rsamd.ac.uk or call 0141 270 8213.
On the subject of the Rainbow of Desire, Julian Boal says:
'Many concrete oppressions provoke deep damage inside our subjectivity and psychic life. Under the general title of Rainbow of Desire, there are fifteen techniques - complex, but not complicated – which help us to visualize theatrically our oppressions, and deal with them more clearly: no one interprets anything, but all participants offer the protagonist the mirror of the multiple regards of the others.
We try to locate the cops in our head knowing very well that, if those cops are there, they have come from some headquarters outside us that spread them all around, into the heads of many more citizens. We try to discover the ideology of each cop and not concentrate our attention on the particular individual.'
