About this Event
About the Event
The Closing Ceremony of the Theater of the Oppressed Symposium will open with the scene created by the Forum Theater Workshop participants. Then, the CTO group, The Color of Brazil, which is composed of Black artists, will perform their Forum theater piece "Suspect". After the presentation, the audience is invited to reflect on what they watched and to collectively imagine strategies that could be used in the face of the problem being staged. The audience is then encouraged to test out these strategies on stage together with the cast. Lastly, we will close out the night with music from the Brazilian Samba band "Samba da Opera."
Open to all. Performance in Portuguese with translation into English.
"Suspect" addresses institutional and diffuse racism, which, despite being pervasive in the daily lives of Black individuals, yields concrete consequences for racial inequality in the country. Often, this racial inequality remains imperceptible, concealed within discourses of camaraderie and meritocracy. Suspect is a Forum Theater production based on Feminist Aesthetics that aims to blur the boundaries between stage and audience, in order to establish collaborative bridges between artists and spectators through scenic dialogue. The aesthetic process was based both on the personal experiences of the artists involved and on research into the social context of the issue.
About the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed
The Center functions as a research and dissemination hub, actively developing the Theater of the Oppressed methodology through laboratories and dramaturgy seminars. This ongoing process involves the revision, experimentation, analysis and systematization of exercises, games, and theatrical techniques. The CTO was directed by Augusto Boal throughout the last 23 years of his life and, today, his team continues the work. The institution’s philosophy and actions are aimed at democratizing the means of cultural production, fostering intellectual growth among participants, and propagating the Theater of the Oppressed and Teatro de las Oprimidas as a means of activating and democratically strengthening a sense of citizenship. The CTO conducts projects that stimulate active and protagonistic participation of the oppressed segments of society and aims to transform reality through dialog and aesthetic means.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
George Washington Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina Street, Austin, United States
USD 0.00
