Workshop with Shilpee Theatre from Nepal
Try Augusto Boals method "Theatre of the Oppressed" to address sociopolitical issues around you!
Shilpee Theatre Group from Kathmandu, Nepal, is touring three countries in Europe! With their tour the group aims to share knowledge between two different parts of the world: learning from one another, fostering mutual understanding, and discovering inclusiveness through creative exchange.
Theatre is a mirror of our society, our lifestyle and our stories. It is not only fun to be a part of theatre but its methods also enrich us as human beings. During Shilpee Theatre’s tour in Europe they are performing two different plays across 9 cities and conducting workshops based on Augusto Boals teachings (see below) and his main method ”Theatre of the Oppressed” and forum theatre. Shilpee Theatre Group is a professional theatre organisation established since 2006 in Kathmandu as a national NGO. It aims to promote theatre as a culture integrated into our daily life.
workshop-program
The workshop will be lead by Ghimire Yubaraj – founder and leader of Shilpee Theatre – and will consist of the following parts:
- Physical warm-up and introductions
- Theatre games
- Practicing Image Theatre
- Exploring Image Theatre in depth
- Short documentary screening
During the day you will get a chance to try ”Theatre of the Oppressed”/forum theatre as a method for addressing different types of conflict and you will all get to work closely in the group based on your own thoughts and approches to different types of situations.
practical information
Workshop leader: Ghimire Yubaraj
Language: English
Price: Free – but voluntary contributions to the group are welcome!
Location: Folkets Scen, Närkesgatan 1 (entrence at the gate closest to Nytorget, one of the leaders will meet you there)
about augusto boal and ”theatre of the oppressed”
From Wikipedia: ”Augusto Boal (16 March 1931–2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Arguably Augusto Boal’s most academically influential work is the Theatre of the Oppressed, in which the reader follows Boal’s detailed analysis of the Poetics of Aristotle and the early history of Western theatre. Boal contends that the Aristotelian ethic means oppressing the masses, the people, the workers and the spectators in favour of stability and the continued dominance of a privileged few.” Read more