A few weeks ago Katy Rubin, a BU CFA alumnus, came and did a
‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ workshop with us. It was both
enjoyable and thought provoking. We discussed such things as the
famous ‘This is not an Apple’ painting by Rene Magritte, and how
our bodies respond to words without our minds even being aware.
I was inspired to learn a bit more about Theatre of the
Opressed. Theatre of The Oppressed was created in the 1960′s by
Augusto Boal, a Brazillian Doctor from Rio Dejanero who
graduated from Columbia University. Theatre of the Opressed,
“offers everyone the aesthetic means to analyze their past, in
the context of their present, and subsequently to invent their
future, without waiting for it. The Theatre of the Oppressed
helps human beings to recover a language they already possess —
we learn how to live in society by playing theatre. We learn how
to feel by feeling; how to think by thinking; how to act by
acting. Theatre of the Oppressed is rehearsal for reality…. The
oppressed are those individuals or