Our Forum Theatre on male identity will be performed in 7 schools in Rome, to involve children and parents in the search for new scripts, new forms of relationships between boys and girls, more open and respectful. This show stages several forms of male violence and invites the audience to try alternatives to violence. These performances are part of a project coordinated by AIDOS on affectivity and emotional literacy. 

Far too many times we see Forum Theatre that individualizes problems that actually arise instead from the very structures of our societies. That individualization leads to at least two problems. First, it suggests that oppressions arise from the free will or personal perspectives of evildoers. But of course oppression does not work that way; a white man during apartheid, for example, benefited from racism regardless of whether or not that person held consciously racist personal opinions. Second, to individualize problems…

We are back to Tunisia for a 3 weeks training with educators who work with disabled people, with the disabled people and their families. Participants will learn how to use the games and theatrical techniques of the theatre of the oppressed in their context. We will create a series of performances that will then tour in Tunis and in the country. One performance will be created with the educators, with the parents and with the disabled people, to stage their…