Homeless theatre: how to engage hard-to-reach audiences

Homeless of the world

What? To show homeless people of the world Why? To tell that they are human beings under the wrong circumstances How? To provide worldwide information and be a platform for everyone who is working with them. Dedicated to my daughter Merel van Oorschot who is lost in time and space, unable to find her way back home.

Martijn

Homeless

Homeless theatre: how to engage hard-to-reach audiences

10 years ago

For over 20 years, Cardboard Citizens has been engaging with hard-to-reach audiences. Our main focus has been homeless and ex-homeless people, and those at risk of homelessness. Our most successful tool of engagement has been forum theatre, a technique created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal where actors or audience members can stop certain sections of a performance in which a character is being oppressed. The audience can then suggest different options or actions for the actors to carry out on-stage, in an effort to change the outcome of the story. Read more.

Homeless

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Thu Jul 24 , 2014

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