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Theater of the Oppressed

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Developed by Augusto Boal , this is a series of imaginative exercises which promote awareness of one's social situation and it's limitations, individual attitudes, and even how we are all bound by tradition.

Theater of the Oppressed is improvisational, in the sense that tries to play non-scripted theater, with actors and non-actors, in which he explores how oppression appears in our societies, and how we might fight it.

In his book Games for Actors and Non-actors more than a hundred excellent exercises are described (his 'arsenal' of the Theater of the Oppressed) which are equally valuable as tools/games for Improv.

* If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy --- Yamamoto Tsunetomo