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“On Your Feet!”: Addressing Ableism in Theatre of the Oppressed Facilitation

This article cautions that while Theatre of the Oppressed workshops work toward inclusivity and equity, workshop facilitators can easily fall into assuming participants' physical abilities, with the potential to lead to exclusion and inequity. The author therefore provides resources to maintain and continuously improve equity in facilitation by highlighting disability scholarship and Universal Design pedagogy to include and honor the diversity of bodies in workshops. 

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Living Newspaper, The

This kinesthetic activity enables participants to discuss stereotypes and biases that exist in news sources, recognize and interrogate elements of systemic oppression, and develop team-building skills.

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Image in Transition

This kinesthetic activity enables participants to reflect on the importance of intervening in oppressive situations and develop team-building skills. It can be used in conjunction with Group Images.

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Group Images

This kinesthetic activity enables participants to develop team-building skills and reflect on how others interpret words and concepts through body language and movement. It can be used in conjunction with the Complete the Picture and Pair Sculpt and Group Sculpt activities.

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Self Sculpt

This kinesthetic activity enables participants to reflect on how they and other's interpret words through body language, movement, and sound, as well as form connections with others. It can be used in conjunction with the Pair Sculpt and Group Sculpt activity. 

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Pair Sculpt and Group Sculpt

This kinesthetic activity will help participants develop team-building skills and reflect on how others interpret words through body language and movement. It can be used in conjunction with the Complete the Picture activity.

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Complete the Picture

This kinesthetic activity will enable participants to develop team-building skills and reflect on how nonverbal communication cues can alter interpretation.

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Columbian Hypnosis

This kinesthetic activity encourages participants to analyze and reflect on power dynamics using movement. 

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Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed is a form of theatre first created by Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal. This tool provides a number of resources that include various theatrical activities inspired by the Theatre of the Oppressed and also provide guidance on how to incorporate the activities into a curriculum.

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ImaginAction: What is the Theatre of the Oppressed?

This web page includes an overview of Theatre of the Oppressed, including the various techniques.

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Teaching Tolerance—Circle Sculpture: An introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed

This activity by Teaching Tolerance provides a way for educators to introduce Theatre of the Oppressed into the classroom.

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Theatre of the Oppressed NYC: Blame the Next

Blame the Next is a theatrical activity created by the Theatre of Oppressed NYC.

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Philadelphia Theatre of Oppressed

This blog includes games played by Philadelphia's Theatre of the Oppressed. 

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Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre for Teachers

Forum theatre is one technique of the Theatre of the Oppressed where the audience can interrupt a scene and advise actors to go in a different direction. This resource provides forum theatre activities that can be incorporated into the classroom. 

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Theatre of the Oppressed: A Manual for Educators

This master's capstone project provides thorough guidance on how to incorporate the Theatre of the Oppressed into the classroom.

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Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal

This handbook builds on the original Theatre of the Oppressed and includes a number of different exercises.

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The original Theatre of the Oppressed book by Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, which was originally translated and published in 1979, is available to purchase on Amazon. 

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