SO175 Theatre of the Oppressed

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MgA. Lenka Polánková, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
SO_DV Drama education projects && SOUHLAS
- 5 - days workshop.
- Full-time and part-time study students first complete a 3-day workshop together.
- Full-time students also complete a forum theater program creation seminar and implement the created theater program in education with the target group 3 times (total scope of 2 days).
- Students of part-time study will also complete the subject either in the form of e-learning, or they can join a group of full-time students (total scope of 2 days).
- Study of literature.
- Creation, implementation and reflection of the forum theater project.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject is conceived as a one-semester project finalized by the realization of forum theatre. Students are acquainted with the various exercises, techniques and games used in theatre of the oppressed metodology. Furthermore, using these techniques, the students work in smaller groups on the chosen problem topic and create forum theatre programme for chosen target group. The theater of the oppressed leads the audience to realize that everyone has the ability to influence and at least change slightly the events around us not only in the world on the stage but also in real life.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, full-time and part-time study students will be able to:
Define basic concepts of theater of the oppressed.
Describe theater objectives of the oppressed.
Compare the inland and foreign approaches to the theater of the oppressed.
Design the staging of the theater of the oppressed.
Plan theater workshop of the oppressed.

After completing the course full-time study students will be able to:
Apply theater performance and workshops of the oppressed in practice.
Syllabus
  • Theater of the oppressed.
  • Augusto Boal.
  • Newspaper theater.
  • Legislative theater.
  • Invisible Theater.
  • Rainbow of desire.
  • Direct action.
  • Image Theater.
  • Theater Forum.
  • The aesthetics of the theaterof the oppressed.
  • Pedagogy of the oppressed.
  • Paulo Freire.
Literature
    required literature
  • FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogika utlačovaných. Translated by Eva Batličková. V Praze: Svobodná knihovna, z.s., 2022, 229 stran. ISBN 9788090824799. info
  • SANTOS, Bárbara, Julian BOAL and Augusto BOAL. Divadlem ke změně : vybrané texty k divadlu utlačovaných. Translated by Tereza Schmoranz - Martina Čermáková. [Praha]: Antikomplex, 2016, 101 stran. ISBN 9788090619821. info
  • FREIRE, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. [Chicago, Illinois]: BookRags, 2000, 32 stran. ISBN 9781304556677. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Theater of the oppressed. Translated by Charles A. Leal McBride - Maria-Odilia Leal McBride - Emily Fryer. London: Pluto Press, 2000, xxi, 208. ISBN 0745316573. info
    recommended literature
  • BOAL, Augusto. Games for actors and non-actors. Translated by Adrian Jackson. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002, xxix, 301. ISBN 0415267080. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Hamlet and the baker's son : my life in theatre and politics. Translated by Adrian Jackson - Candida Blaker. New York: Routledge, 2001, xv, 366. ISBN 0415229898. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. Legislative theatre : using performance to make politics. Translated by Adrian Jackson. New York: Routledge, 1998, xiv, 254. ISBN 0415182417. info
  • BOAL, Augusto. The rainbow of desire : the Boal method of theatre and therapy. Translated by Adrian Jackson. London: Routledge, 1995, xxvi, 188. ISBN 9780415103497. info
Teaching methods
excercise, discussion, observation, divadlo fórum
Assessment methods
oral examination, projekt participation, 90 % účast
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Předmět je součástí profilace Dramatická výchova.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5 dní.
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