Theatre as a Vehicle for Social Change
People’s Theatre The theatre is thus a medium, a method, a technique, an art and, above all, a new language in which imagination, discussions, dialogues, lamentations, laughter, Union, dancing and music are elements which shape the creation of the new voice - the voice of the people. Theatre is efficient and effective methods of achieving participation. There are elements among the people that can provide the means, the interest and the individuals for the tasks of self-expression and social change that are involved. A people’s theatre does not mean an art of lower standards, but an art deriving from the people because it is concerned with them. It is not an exotic art or one speaking for minorities. It speaks to the basic human being who struggles to gain his/her daily needs and whose life or death is decided by that struggle. CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE THEATRE. The base of the theatre must to ensure that the material and spiritual riches of this earth reach those wh