Ethics & Impact
The intended impact of a forum theatre performance
Generating public dialogue and community knowledge
The very first group of people that Augusto Boal worked with and developed Forum Theatre with and for
A Peruvian Workers Literacy Campaign
The person not allowed to make a decision within the process of creating Forum Theatre
The Joker
The year in which Forum Theatre first began
1973
The form of theatre where the audience may step in or add suggestions to change the course of action in the scene
Forum Theatre
A phrase referring to community theatre practices not present in theatrical spaces that do not engage in community follow-up once the performance has ended
a Hit-and-run
The overarching theatre discipline that forum theatre is involved in refers to this group
Theatre of the Oppressed
This is NOT a viable solution in forum theatre
Violence or magic
The country in which Forum Theatre was devised as a literacy program
Peru
The term used to indicate the facilitator in a Forum Theatre production
The Joker
Forum theatre performances interacting with oppressed communities especially involving specific/personal experiences can invoke these responses
Traumatic experiences, hidden feelings and fears
The person who said that all theatre is inherently a political statement
Augusto Boal
Before audience members may jump in and participate, they must do this first.
Watch the performance all the way through once
Forum Theatre originated from this model of participatory education developed by Brazilian educator and Marxist, Paolo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The term used to refer to the audience members in Forum Theatre
Spect-Actor
Despite the goal of surfacing emotions and giving voices to the oppressed Forum Theatre is NOT this practice
Therapy
A Forum Theatre scene begins with a retelling of one of these topics in relation to the community.
Discrimination, poverty, inequality
The genre that the performance should strive to stay within the bounds of
Realism
The name of another version of forum theatre developed in 1984 by Canadian artist David Diamond
Theatre For Living
Participedia.net proposes that Forum theatre can happen within in this vague time frame
From six days to upwards of many months
Is Forum theatre is morally good?
What is your justification?
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Three specific groups listed at the bottom of your sheet that were affected by forum theatre
Gender based violence in mining communities in Zimbabwe
Ex-gambling addicts - the Chinese family
Medical students consulting with domestic abuse victims
General surgery residency and peer-to-peer mistreatment
Homosexuality in religious education
Women in wildfire crises and lived experiences of conflict
The term that Manchester University used to describe the Joker
The Midwife
Augusto Boal, for his politically charged work, was kidnapped, arrested, tortured and eventually exiled to this country
Argentina
The three different kinds of physical movement practiced in a forum theatre performance
Respiratory, Motor, and Vocal