Theatre for Social Change

Catalog description

Theatre for social change practitioners utilize storytelling and community-rooted creative practices to address issues such as trauma, systemic inequity, and identity-based stress. This course explores influential texts, artists, and organizations in the field of Theatre for Social Change. You’ll reflect on the issues that matter to you; your identity markers; ethics, responsibility, reciprocity, and power; working within oppressive systems; and theory versus practice. Your primary project in this class will be to plan a Theatre for Social Change project or program. Implementing this project is beyond the scope of this class and is not required. Rather, by envisioning a program, you’ll critically examine these issues and gain an appreciation for the opportunities and challenges in facilitating Theatre for Social Change.