Devising socio-political theatre

▪    Workshops can incorporate the history and principles of devising social and political theatre, especially how this theatre form has developed in Southern Africa, Latin America and South East Asia, specialist knowledge of Protest theatre and theatre for development in Southern Africa.
▪    Drawing on specific experience devising socio-political theatre in Malawi and Zimbabwe, workshopping this would include approaches to protest, defining aims and audience, negotiating agendas, managing risks and dominant narratives, involvement of legal and political framework, voices and perspectives, framing statements, structuring conflicts, ambushing, use of media.