Theatre of the Oppressed

by the government. It shows the many demonstrations that were held by the people to protest about the government and the death that has been caused by the shah. For example, the shah, on page 14, had locked about 400 people in a movie theatre and had burned the theatre to the ground along with the people burning inside. This book shows the dark side of Iran and what really went on during that time, showing us a very different perspective that we couldn’t perceive. To go along with the dark…

This clothing represents George’s close mindedness and disrespect towards Nigerian culture, but also impacts Beneatha. She is mad, and pouts as she changes. When she puts on her fancy, theatre clothes, she becomes mad and even more so, oppressed. Oppressed because she can’t show her beliefs through clothing. This situation is opposite to the one with Asagai. This foreshadows that through clothing, her decision to pursue a relationship with Asagai is evident. Asagai’s…

Anger is a form of communication that discloses important information about the obstacles oppressed people meet. For romantic period writers, anger was a cross of rational justice and irrational savagery, and determining its position in society and in their own work as a tool or weapon tackles them as a vital task (Stauffer 2). Anger often plays as a tool of truth, pointing out injustices, betrayals and false states of affairs and seeking to even scores. To this point, the romantic…

became about white people the superior race. White people became the superior race in America by doing everything and anything to exterminate indigenous peoples. It was a sport and culture to kill Indigenous people – it was the right thing to do. Theatres and parades in Denver celebrated the Sand Creek Massacre. As president Theodore Roosevelt puts it, it was “…as righteous and beneficial a deed that has ever taken place on the frontier”. Killing women, children, and elders was okay as long as…

Annotation A Lathouras, A., Loth, J., & Ross, D. (2016). Applied theatre techniques for community workers - towards a performative and anti-oppressive ethical approach. Australasian drama studies, 68(1), 118-142. This article examines how theatre techniques can be implemented in community work as a form of addressing discrimination and oppression. These techniques enable empowerment and the disruption of the status quo, particularly, in those communities where the prevailing power…

work of art meant to be performed on stage. So, we can say that drama is a performative genre, both communal (created by the play-going society, a community of theatre-makers and playwrights) as well as time and space-specific. I will compare between Drama and Comedy. Firstly, we will start with a definition, Drama is a play in a theatre or on television or radio, or plays and acting generally but, Comedy is a (type of) film, play, or book that is intentionally funny either in its characters…

Schaefer Awards Theatre” and “The revolution will not go better with coke” (Heron 1). The true revolution, Heron speaks of is a change in the mentality of the oppressed. The restlessness and demand for change will be the true definition of a revolution. In this change of my mindset, Heron stresses the futility of standing by coolly as the revolution takes place. “You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out” because successful efforts toward the liberation of the oppressed must be…

officials, who were against the theatre, to begin with, were particularly against women performers. During the 1500s laws were created that could keep women from building a career in theatre performances. In 1587, women were legally allowed to become actresses but this caused a lot of controversies. The church was particularly angry and tried to ban women from acting. After years of back and forth women were finally allowed to perform (Wilson, 242). Since the origins of theatre, prepubescent…

Critical race theory as I understand it, is the action of breaking down the false logic that people use to present one race as greater than another. I think that race is not a good or a bad things it just simply exists. Just as was discussed in class, I believe it to be a mental construct that only has the power than people have given it. Race however is not the only thing in our society that is a mental construct that has the ability to create real world change. Take for example the fashion…

Ailey then had a dream – to head his own dance troupe. Ailey trained at the Lester Horton Dance Theatre since 1950 after being personally recruited by Horton for being ‘the next big thing’. As time went by, Ailey started dancing in nightclubs in San Francisco, California, and then returned to the Horton school to finish his training. He attended college at UCLA and took over the Horton Dance Theatre when, unfortunately, Lester Horton passed away. Additionally, Ailey performed in a musical…