Feminist Theater of the Oppressed Workshop

Join Bárbara Santos in a workshop to learn about Theater of the Oppressed and her latest book on the topic. 

Bárbara worked for two decades with Augusto Boal as general coordinator of the Centre of Theatre of the Oppressed (CTO) and as a collaborator in many artistic productions. Now based in Berlin, Bárbara Santos is the creator and coordinator of the KURINGA Theatre of the Oppressed Qualification Programme. She has accumulated extensive international experience in shows, seminars, conferences, festivals, workshops, courses, management and supervision of Theatre of the Oppressed productions and groups. Bárbara is author of Roots and Wings of Theatre of the Oppressed (2016);Aesthetic Paths, original approaches on Theatre of the Oppressed(2018); and Feminist Theatre of the Oppressed (2019). She has developed innovative lines of aesthetic investigation focused on gender and race as a social construction through a feminist perspective. 

Santos is one of the creators, the main researcher and diffuser of the Madalena Laboratory – an innovative aesthetic investigation about the mechanisms of oppression faced by women and based on the techniques of the Aesthetics of the Oppressed. She is founder of Ma(g)dalena International Network composed by feminist theatre groups from Latin America, Europe and Africa, and a member of ITI Germany (International Theatre Institute of UNESCO) and editor of Metaxis CTO magazine about Theatre of the Oppressed.