Identity of Politics of Arts

Identity of Politics of Arts

I ndebted to the work of Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Augusto Boal has termed his theatre as "Theatre of Oppressed". It is very much relevant here to quote a lengthy passage from the work of Augusto Boal: "The poetics of oppressed is essentially the portion of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the character either or think or to act in his place. The spectator forces himself; he thinks and acts for himself. Theatre is action. Perhaps the theatre is not revolutionary in itself; but have doubts, it is a rehearsal of revolution". This is really what we want to create our theatre activities in a rebellion way not only to interpret but to change the social reality instructed by the hegemony of the political power. This will bring a real identity to theatre which always inherits the power of the identity politics of theatre.