Caroline Quinn ’17 Sheds Light on Human Rights, Social, and Political Injustice Through Her BOAL Theatre Of The Oppressed Performance
This summer, Archmere senior Caroline Quinn was selected to showcase a theatre piece at the BOAL Workshop at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Titled The Market Place, the piece portrays the reality of human trafficking. Caroline was also asked to choreograph a contemporary ballet piece about drug addiction. BOAL Theatre brings attention to issues such as genocide, ethnic discrimination, gender discrimination and human trafficking. Although raw and emotional, the theatrical performances send a powerful message in the hope of global change.
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.
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grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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