Theatre Of Empathy Subbing Out The Victims

Theatre for a Change, a partnership between the UK and Malawi, is “one of a number of organisations around the world using theatre to educate about sexual consent, the company favours a technique called ‘legislative theatre’. This concept was developed by Brazilian dramatist, director and theoristĀ Augusto Boal, who believed that putting the powerful in the shoes of the disempowered enabled an empathy that could effect legal change.”