The Brazilian theatre tradition behind Britain’s Green surge

The ideas behind Britain’s Green surge began in a Brazilian jail. In the 1970s, Augusto Boal invented a technique he named Theatre of the Oppressed. It sought to awaken audiences by making them active participants, turning spectators into “spect-actors.” Theatre of the Oppressed Boal had drawn the idea from educator Paulo Freire, whose Pedagogy of […] By Hugo Harvey