🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The purpose of the course is to examine the possibilities of social reintegration that theatre provides to specific communities, which are often vulnerable, disadvantaged or socially marginalized (homeless, refugees and migrants, prisoners, inmates in nursing homes and other institutions). During the semester, students will come into contact with contemporary theories and practices of Social Theatre, through an inter-artistic approach. In addition, students will focus on the rules and behaviors that govern the specific communities and the spaces in which 224 are located (street, refugee and migrant accommodation center, prison, nursing home, social reintegration center, etc.). Finally, they will understand the relationship between theater and social work, through specific practical applications

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

• be aware of the potential for social reintegration that theatre offers to vulnerable, disadvantaged or socially marginalised communities;
• focus on the rules and behaviours that govern the specific communities and the spaces in which they are located;
• understand the relationship between theatre and social work, through specific practical applications.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Introduction: what is Social Theatre. Presentation of the thematic units of the course
2. Definitions and cultural origin of Social Theatre 
3. Key issues of Social Theatre: (a) how theatre is used to achieve social change, (b) theatre as a factor of change, activation, transformation and inclusion
4. The emergence and development of Social Theatre during the 20th century: a historical review
5. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
6. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
7. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
8. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
9. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida.
10. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
11. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
12. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
13. Celebration. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Introduction: what is Social Theatre. Presentation of the thematic units of the course
2. Definitions and cultural origin of Social Theatre 
3. Key issues of Social Theatre: (a) how theatre is used to achieve social change, (b) theatre as a factor of change, activation, transformation and inclusion
4. The emergence and development of Social Theatre during the 20th century: a historical review
5. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
6. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
7. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
8. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
9. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida.
10. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
11. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
12. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida. 
13. Celebration. Practical theater workshop with students at the Unified Special Vocational Gymnasium - Lyceum of Argolida.

Language of assessment: Greek [The course is offered to Erasmus students in English]

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Practical applications (X %)
• Public presentation (X %)

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching Use of ICT in communication with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA124/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Boal, A. 2013. Theatrical Games for Actors and Non-Actors. (transl. M. Papadima). Thessaloniki: Sofia Publications

• Zoniou, Ch. 2003. "The Theater of the Oppressed," Education and Theater 4:1-8.

• Zoniou, Ch. 2010. "Augusto Boal (1931 – 2009)", Education and Theatre 11:72-80.

• Freire, P. 1974. The Education of the Oppressed. (transl. G. Kritikos). Athens: Rappa Publications

Extra Bibliography

• Boal, A. 2008. Games for Actors and Non-Actors. New York: Routledge

• Boal, A. 1985. Theatre of the Oppressed. New York: Theatre Communications Group

• Brecht, B. 1961. «Theatre for Learning», The Tulane Theatre Review, 6, 1, 18-25

• Freire, P. 1968. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Seabury Press

• Jennings, S. 2009. Dramatherapy and social theatre: necessary dialogues. London: Routledge

• Kershaw, B. 1992. The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre of Cultural Intervention. London: Routledge

• Schechner, R. & Thompson J. 2004. «Why “Social Theatre”?», TDR, 48, 3: 11-16. 

• Schininá G.  «Here we are: Social Theatre and Some Open Questions about Its Developments», TDR, 48, 3: 17-31