Explore the ways theatre has been used as an instrument of social change. Students study and evaluate historical examples of theatre that has been used for social change. This course focuses on a few major movements in the world of theatre including: Forum Theatre, Theatre for Development, Agitprop. Throughout the course students are asked to consider how theatre works to impact society and how they might use these tools to create theatre in their own lives and communities.
As the student looks to apply their understanding of performance and acting, it is essential to expand thier knowledge of how theatre has been used to impact societies. The ideas explored in this course continue to help students identify and grow their own strengths as performers.
Theatre has so often been a tool for social change. As Christians, our goal is to glorify God and play a role in the work that He is doing in our world and within our communities. This course emphasizes the ability of story to change a societies and communicate the unspeakable gifts of God’s grace in a way that only theatre can.
Because theatre has been used to affect both positive and negative social change it is essential that this course positions these ideas within a biblical worldview and framework. Students are asked to evaluate major movements and moments within the theatrical arts in the light of their own biblical perspective.
This course is concerned with how theatre has a direct impact on societies and communities. Students are asked to consider how their own creative expression might develop and grow using the tools considered in this course.
Throughout this course students are encouraged to think about their own communities and cultures. How might theatre have a real impact within their own culture? What might a theatrical performance look like if its aim is to have an impact in its own society? Theatre has always been an art form born from within the context of lived experience and within the place and moment it emerges.
This course explores theatrical movements from Argentina, Russia, South Africa, and many other places.
By looking into the past and around the world students gather tools to use in their own work.
Students are asked in this course to create work that exemplifies the sort of ideas explored through this course.
