"A rare treat for radical thespians: Worms Theatre hosts a playful, beginner’s-friendly deep dive into Augusto Boal’s revolutionary practice, culminating in a Forum Theatre play at the end of the course. Theatre of the Oppressed reframes ‘acting’ as a vehicle for social change, encouraging anarchic audience participation and providing a safe space to practice real-life resistance. "
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A event held at The Trinity Centre on Monday 27th April. The event starts at 17:00.
A playful, profound exploration into power and responsibility.
Join Worms Theatre Company in collaboration with Laura Singer for an 8-week Theatre of the Oppressed course: a space to question, dream, create, and rehearse the revolution together.
Weekly from 27th April - 17th June at the Trinity Centre.
Across these eight weeks, our closed group will journey through movement, sound, aesthetics, crisis, hope and world-dreaming. Together we will choose the central question we want to explore, and through collaborative improvisation and embodied inquiry we will create an original Forum Theatre play. This piece will grow directly from the stories, experiences and ideas of the participants themselves.
This course offers a fresh, funky approach — blending clowning, improvisation, play and physical exploration — inviting us to slow down, step out, stand up, take power, and engage in joyful rebellion. It asks us to move beyond hierarchy and into responsibility: to witness the world as it is, and to summon the trickster who dances in the cracks of what could be.
When is it?
- Monday 27th April Trinity Centre
- Tuesday 5th May Trinity Centre
- Monday 11th May Trinity Centre
- Monday 18th May Trinity Centre
- Monday 25th May Trinity Centre
- Monday 1st June Trinity Centre
- Monday 8th June Trinity Centre
- Monday 15th June
- Wednesday 17th June Trinity Centre (performance)
Who is it for?
Everyone is welcome. We welcome members of the LGBTQI+ community, including non-binary and trans participants, as well as people with lived experience of marginalisation, neurodiversity, and physical restrictions. We especially invite non-actors, people who are curious, playful, questioning, or longing for new ways of seeing and being. It is crucial that you can attend at least 6 of the 8 workshops and performance.
About the Facilitators
Teddy Monroe, the founder of Worms Theatre Company, is a theatre facilitator and Kuringa trained by Barbara Santos, using the tools of Theatre of the Oppressed to inspire change within the education system.
Laura Singer, a theatre and Systemic Constellations facilitator, trained in Theatre of the Oppressed with Reboot the Roots, STOP London and Branch Out Theatre and spent a year collaborating with an international network of facilitators and educators taking the work online during the pandemic.
Entry requirements: 18+
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