The project is based on experiential learning; theatre students and marginalized counterparts on and off campus will collaborate and research their joint experiences. Meeting with "others" generates narratives from which the "actors" devise dramatic texts for performance and dialogue with the community audience.

 

Part one will emphasize the inter-subjective process. The participants will create dramatic materials from personal and inter-personal exercises. The course will emphasize various techniques and methods including: drama games, Improvisation, Group processes using play, Drama Therapy and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. 

 

Part two will involve the participants, students and marginalized counterparts in creating dramatic narratives using improvisation and forum theatre technique, writing scenes and taking responsibility for directing, producing and presenting a theatrical event.