Specific Development

 … Specific applications of performance

• Theatre and communication for good governance
• Theatre for decision makers
• Theatre for justice
> Learning and accessing legal rights through theatre processes
> Theatre and interactive learning in prisons
> Forum theatre for restorative justice
> Drama therapy for group counselling and rehabilitation in prisons

• Theatre for conflict resolution and peace
• Theatre for women’s rights
• Theatre for child rights
• Theatre for HIV & AIDS prevention
• Theatre for Malaria prevention
• Theatre for hygiene and sanitation
• Theatre for environmental health

Theatre is used to describe both theatre based processes and theatre as an event or rehearsed product. Training in these specific thematic areas encompasses knowledge and understanding or specific development needs in developing countries, incorporating practice experience of the barriers to achieving positive change in challenging contexts. Realities in mid and post-conflict states, fragile states and “least-developed” states where poverty and/or traditional cultural practices can hold back ‘development’ as defined by western donors.