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Activist Theater
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Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACE
Read more: Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACEActionplay, a theatre company dedicated to providing autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled teens and young adults equal access to the theatre-making process, is pleased to announce their next production, the new musical comedy The Surface (or, That One Time Atlantis Washed…
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The Sahmat Collective
Read more: The Sahmat CollectiveIn 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance…
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Read more: Inmates Perform Valmiki PratibhaAlokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…
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Acting Lessons
Read more: Acting LessonsThe New Life Foundation is a Colombian organization located in Bogota, whose aim consists of offering vulnerable women alternatives to quit prostitution and rehabilitate from its surrounding dangers (crime, drug addiction, AIDS, etc.) One of its remarkable projects was based…
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Napalming a Dog!?
Read more: Napalming a Dog!?In 1968, with the US war against Vietnam raging, anti-war veterans and the anti-war movement as a whole in the US increasingly put the spotlight on the US use of napalm. Napalm is burning jellied gasoline dropped on humans engineered…
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Girl Be Heard
Read more: Girl Be HeardGirl Be Heard is a theatre company founded by Artistic Director, Ashley Marinaccio and Executive Director, Jessica Greer Morris, which melds talent and background to create social justice theatre. The company has performed throughout New York City and worldwide to…
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Publixtheatre Caravan
Read more: Publixtheatre CaravanThe Publixtheatre Caravan is the English name for a travelling project of the Volxtheater Favoriten, a Vienna-based international theatrical troupe that has been creating site-specific theatrical interventions in public space as well as stage-based performances since 1994. It is a…
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The Prometheus Project
Read more: The Prometheus ProjectThe Prometheus Project is a partnership between the American Repertory Theater and Amnesty International to bring the theater arts to the service of human rights advocacy. In an effort to bring the power of theater to aid the fight for…
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In Belarus, Theater as Activism
Read more: In Belarus, Theater as ActivismBy DAVID L. STERN, in The New York Times Published: September 22, 2009 MINSK, BELARUS — Three male actors enter a stark, white room in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of this former Soviet city and place a large…