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Third-Way Theatre, based in Melbourne, Australia, works to address community issues that arise out of normative political,cultural, economic assumptions that act to deny certain communities the capacity for "true citizen engagement". Workshops to date have focused on struggles for self-determination, racism, homophobia, homelessness, disability, mental health, sexism (body image), poverty. Struggles for rights, dignity and respect are explored by community members who live the reality of stigma and discrimination including inter and intra-personal violence, as a consequences of systemic violence.
During the workshop phase, community members come together to discover their commonalities. They use theatre as a tool to investigate their shared reality, to find their collective voice, and to reach for the deeper moments of truths. Moments where ignorance, fear, hatred contributed to or caused injustice. The collective sharing informs the plays that are produced, if a workshop goes to public performance. The plays reflect the communities struggles and end in a moment of crises, leaving the wider community to answer the question: "what can we do, what strategies and tactics are available to us to create change." Together the actors and the wider community audience alike reflect in a inter/active dialogue.
Third-Way Theatre aims, by opening up public forums to contribute to a space that can insert experiences (truths) of what is often hidden and denied for reasons of expedience. Through asking the important questions, as a communities, about what WE can do to ACT 4 CHANGE we learn we are not limited by our histories, or contemporary reality. Theatre in this way, becomes a tool to break imposed understandings, silences, assisting in naming the unspeakable around moments that disempower the individual and 'the' broader communities believe in, and capacity to, believe that another world is possible.
Third-Way Theatre works is underpinned by the methods devised by the Brazilian artist and activist Augusto Boal; Theatre of the Oppressed (TO).
"私たちの平和という夢のために”
Contact details:
Ph: 61 3 9005 7460
C/O Third-Way Theatre.
Mailing address: PO Box 4371,
Melbourne University,
VIC, 3052 (Australia)
