Description
„If theatre can act as a scaffold to social analysis,then the society with even more reason can act as a scaffold for the theatre.”(Richard Schechner) The main goal of the project to collect and show the the political,economic and social changes in Eastern Central European society with the means of the Forum Theatre. They would like to involve groups which are struggling with social-exclusion problems to catch up full participation and integration in their life.The principal objective to make a special theatre educational program,where the theatre and performance art could reflect on this sociological problems.They plan to organize international workshops,roundtable discussions and a 1 week performance festival to promoting the social integration.As the project is taking place in different cities,the target group is broad;students,artists,theoreticians,international/local NGO’s,social workers.The project also reaches out for the "man of the street"; and critical members of the civil society.
Summary of project results
They started their social, theatrical education program series in 2015, that subsumed 10 years work on the same field in an international project. Their motto is "the Theatre of the Oppressed is the theatre of the first-person plural" (Augosto Boal). The purpose of the program series was to teach the target audience (juvenile detainees, young Roma people living in deep poverty, mentally handicapped people) the importance of the concept of democracy, and the operating principles of equal opportunity by the means of panel discussions and theatrical performances. The observations, experiences and results of their research were presented during a one week long international street festival, in an imaginary city: ÉberZónia, where they illustrated democracy as a personal way of life through prison-theatrical and clown plays and interactive street performances. The goal was to create a living, pulsating tissue out of their research that serves as a memento of the varicoloured human nature.
Summary of bilateral results