06/10/2025
🕕 Join Pindorama Terra Brasilis at 6pm with Fernanda Otero: 🌍
Join us for Revolutionary Stage, one of the live performances at the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders.
Revolutionary Stage employs Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to explore the lived experiences of Brazilian migrants in Dublin, the rise of the Far Right, and systemic oppression. Set during the backdrop of the Dublin riots, this devised play takes on discrimination in health, the workplace, and society at large, using Augusto Boal’s forum theatre from Theatre of the Oppressed, to change the narrative and build solidarity. This play is funded through the Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realisation Award from Create on behalf of the Arts Council.
The Theatre of the Oppressed, TOP, created by Brazilian visionary Augusto Boal, is a powerful form of participatory theatre that transforms audiences from passive spectators into active "spect-actors." It breaks the traditional, one-way stage dynamic to explore solutions to social and personal oppression. Through interactive games and forum theatre, where spectators intervene to change a scene's outcome, it becomes a rehearsal for real-world action and liberation.
We also have Armindo Pinto from Teatro do Oprimido explaining his experience with Boal himself and exploring TOP ideas and experiences!
👂 Listen: Dublin South FM 93.9
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