At Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, we don’t just tell stories—we ignite action. In our ongoing cycles of community-based programs, we collaborate with NYC communities to confront oppression at all level...

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The ideas behind Britain’s Green surge began in a Brazilian jail. In the 1970s, Augusto Boal invented a technique he named Theatre of the Oppressed. It sought to awaken audiences by making them active participants, turning spectators into “spect-actors.” Boal had drawn the idea from educator Paulo Freire, whose Pedagogy of the Oppressed argued that conventional education was a tool of domination, a “banking” model where teachers deposited facts into passive students. Jailed by Brazil’s military junta in 1964 and driven into exile, Freire proposed instead that teacher and student examine the world together, aiming at conscientização, or critical consciousness.

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Presentation by Iman Aoun, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Ashtar Theatre in Ramallah, Palestine|The Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and Friends of Ashtar Theatre hosted an online presentation by Im...

Podcast Episode · Applied Theatre Podcast · March 11 · 51m

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A Stages of Change Panel|Visionaries in the theatre field will lead a community conversation exploring a range of theatrical practices for engaging communities in conflict resolution, healing, and fos...

In a year marked by funding cuts and rising urgency, the longtime institution stages its second fight-night of theatre and activism.

JANASANSKRITI (https://janasanskriti.org.in/) representa la experiencia más grande de teatro del oprimido en el mundo, donde las técnicas que nacieron en los 60 en Brasil se mezclan con la tradición y...

Interrupting Criminalization and Women Building Up have partnered up to offer an anti-criminalization “Communiversity” series of workshops and classes, taking place in person in Brooklyn, starting mid...

Join Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and a line-up of radicals, raconteurs, and revolutionaries for an evening spent training to change the world.

When people have experienced ways to bring Power to those with Wisdom and Wisdom to those with Power, then they’ll work together to make it a reality at a larger scale.

Fifty years after the publication of Técnicas Latino-americanas de teatro popular, we revisit Augusto Boal’s vision of a ‘Copernican revolution in reverse’ to reclaim the Global South as the centre of...