25th Annual Student Research Conference
The Move of Theatre from Broadway into Homes around the World
Joanne E. Heggemann
Dr. Elaine McDuff, Faculty Mentor
Whether you are on stage performing, watching television, listening to the radio, or simply telling a story about your day you are participating in a form of theatre. Psychologists such as Jacob Moreno, Albert Bandura, and social activist Augusto Boal realized the impact theatre has on peoples lives and decided to use theatre to promote social change by using forum theatre, psychodramas, and many other variations on the art form. Theatre is no longer only for entertainment and contained on Broadway or your television set. Now theatre is being utilized globally to educate and heal. While it is great to read about how theatre is affecting lives across the globe, it is an entirely different experience seeing the impact first hand. While interning at Artscape Theatre I was able to whitness what their part in influencing social change by working on the Mitchells Plain Oral History Project.
Keywords: Artscape , Mitchells Plain Oral History Project , forum theatre, psychodramas, Theatre of the Oppressed , edu-tainment
Topic(s):Democracy and Human Rights in South Africa
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 101-13
Location: VH 1324
Time: 10:00