Chapter VII. What’s so GREAT about Forum Theatre?
*List created in Lahore, Pakistan during 2004 Theatre of the Oppressed training.
1) Gives audience ownership and responsibility to problem-solve local conflicts.
2) Creates a safe place for dialogue on sensitive issues.
3) Informative, educational experience for the Joker, the audience and the actors.
4) Empowers the audience to find creative solutions to pervasive conflicts.
5) Opportunity for the community to come together.
6) Helps build relationships with and within the community.
7) Brings respect to Theatre and the use of theatre as a legitimate art form.
8) Efficient communication: Conveys message in a short period of time.
9) Accessible and affordable, reaching many members of the community.
10) Returns to traditional, cultural forms of dialogue.
11) Engaging process that encourages creative thinking.
12) Helpful in finding roots of the problem.
13) Empowering process for females (especially in Pakistan), since the stage is a safe place to speak.
14) Presents accurate reflection of life in Pakistan.
15) Builds the audience’s self-confidence as well as the actors’ self-confidence.
16) Theatre activist receives constructive feedback immediately.
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