Theatre of the Oppressed

poetry. Throughout her adult career she strived to create a form of poetry that both deaf and hearing people could enjoy simultaneously. She played a pivotal role in the growing popularity of signed poetry, as well as the use of sign language in theatre. Because of this role, Miles is also renowned as one of the pioneers in American Sign Language and British Sign Language poetry, and also English poetry. She was born in Wales, in 1931 and died in 1993 at the age of 61 (Miles, 2015). During her…

dedicated to the task at hand, despite common belief of women being lacking in mental and physical strength. If Antigone where to believe her sister when she stressed how insignificant women where in comparison to men, and allowed herself to be oppressed by the over-authority of a man, her brothers soul would remain unrested. Through her plight cost Antigone her life, that was the price she was willing to pay for her brother’s justice. I chose Antigone to be the focus of my research, because we…

Baz Luhrmann was born in Sydney in the year 1962. His father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station and a movie theatre while his mother, Barbara Carmel, was a ballroom dance teacher and dress shop owner. Luhrmann was a ballroom dancer as a child and this along with his mother being a ballroom dancing teacher gave him the inspiration for the film Strictly Ballroom. He was raised in Herons Creek, a tiny rural settlement, in northern New South Wales and attended St Paul 's College. During college…

Just like the elephant, the empire is very dominant. The murder by the elephant on the coolie, represents the British suppressing the Burmese. At the same time the dead coolie is a symbol of the oppressed Burmese. After being trodden by the elephant the coolie's arms very outstretched, "He was lying on his belly with arms crucified and head sharply twisted to one side.", just like the crucified Jesus. Also the coolie laid under a layer of mud after…

read. I think that it was very important that this class was focused through the perspective of theatre because it allowed me to see a completely different side of the world. It is a completely different world especially if you focus on way women are treated at their place of work. Before this course, I never realized some of the everyday struggles that women have to face especially in the world of theatre and entertainment. It allowed me to open my eyes to struggles women face because I have…

Culture can be broadly defined as the signs, objects, activities, structures, and institutions through which we take meaning and pleasure from our social and material environment, express and define ourselves and communicate with others. Culture evolves, in part, through our creative interaction and engagement with cultural commodities. Matthew Arnold (1822-1883) saw the forms of mass culture that emerged after industrial revolution and urbanization in the nineteenth century as homogenized…

A great deal of present-day postmodern theatre simply constitutes one piece of a large evolutionary historical puzzle from which playwrights are able to apply and adapt various styles, techniques, and examples. Although traditional Native story-telling and customs bear many signs of early theatric components, contemporary Native playwrights find themselves working in an unprecedented industry, where very few precursors to their craft exist. Therefore, some of the most renown plays in Western…

No other event would be more uncomfortable, and that was why this one was perfect. A white, middle-class male attending a feminist African American event based around promoting the disrespectability of African American women towards white male figures in power. As the clock struck six, Dr. Brittney Cooper stepped onto the stage and opened her presentation, entitled Dis-Respectability: Towards A Ratchet Black Feminism. Nearly every other white male in the room seemed to visibly squirm in their…

box”(124).This was evident that Mr. Wright had killed the bird and it lead to her wife killing him. The ladies, therefore, concluded that Mrs. Wright was being abused by her husband and decided to hide the evidence; claiming they know how it feels to be oppressed by the husband. This was symbolic as the writer presents how women are mistreated and…

having the audience react negatively against my mistakes, this is an arresting moment for the audience. It will disrupt the flow of my verbal performance and make the audience feel strange for imposing on my moment (Bell, 2008, pg. 204). Professor of Theatre Arts, Beverly Mathis-Swanson (2015), once told me, “The audience is always on your side, always rooting for you to succeed”. This is a prime example as to the idea making the normal strange. People want to cheer a performer on and see them…