Drama Term Tuesday #38

Forum Theatre

Drama strategy where spectators are invited to enter and transform dramatic action; innovation used mainly for political purposes by Augusto Boal and others.

Members of the audience watch a scene - usually on a political or social theme - and are then invited to stop the action and to suggest alternative ways of playing the scene.

The audience become spect-actors, rather than passive spectators.

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