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Teacher Becky Winstanley and Implicated Theatre Director Frances Rifkin worked collaboratively on ACT ESOL, an ongoing theatre and language education project that combines Theatre of the Oppressed and Participatory ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages).

ACT ESOL is a project by the Serpentine Galleries' Edgware Road Project, where participatory ESOL teachers and Implicated Theatre work with language learners to develop a more political ESOL approach that combines language with a focus on resistance. 

​Following the devastating impact that cuts and aggressive immigration policies have had on mainstream, government-funded ESOL provision, political ESOL projects such as this are timely and much needed. ​

​​Participatory ethics through participatory theatre
Performing ethics: Using participatory theatre to explore ethical issues in CBPR (Community Based Participatory Research)

24 page booklet that outlines the nature of Forum Theatre and exercises and games for use in a workshop on ethics in community-based participatory research​

Using participatory theatre to explore ethical issues in community-based participatory research.

The project was initiated and coordinated by Sarah Banks, Centre for Social Justice and Community Action, Durham University, working with Frances Rifkin, Utopia Arts, a long-established theatre practitioner in the Boal tradition.

The exercises written up here draw on Frances’s work with Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, and her many years of work in Theatre of the Oppressed.

​CONTENTS

1.  GENESIS OF PROJECT: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS AND CHALLENGES
2.  AIMS, METHODOLOGY AND SUMMARY OF OUTCOMES
3.  AN ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PARTICIPATORY THEATRE

APPENDIX 1. 
ETHICS OF PARTICIPATORY THEATRE 
A LITERATURE REVIEW BY DR ELIZABETH HARE

APPENDIX 2.
THE WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY