Creating Legislative Theatre

A two-day workshop in which participants will create their own Legislative Theatre performance. Led by Gavin Crichton from Active Inquiry This is a two-day workshop which will be an introduction to Legislative Theatre. Over the two-days participants will devise their own Legislative Theatre performance and will consider the following questions: • How do you devise a Legislative Theatre play? • What should be included in a Legislative Theatre event? • How does the Joker (facilitator) run the event? • How do you enable an audience to be involved in the creation, deliberation and voting on new policy? Timings - 10am-5pm both days Legislative Theatre Legislative theatre was developed in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in the 1990s by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal. It is part of the Theatre of the Oppressed. A development of Forum Theatre, it actively involves the audience is creating and voting on new policies or laws to help overcome oppression. You can find out more about Legislative Theatre and how it is being used across the world at https://www.thepeopleact.org/ or watch a film of our recent Legislative Theatre process at https://youtu.be/hw9HXSZFSZ0?si=at6glZJmEzZfLQLF Gavin Crichton Gavin is the Artistic Director of Active Inquiry. He first began working with Legislative Theatre in 2014 and in 2017 was part of LegiLAB, a European Legislative Theatre exchange project. Since 2020 he has led Active Inquiry's Drama for Democracy project exploring how Legislative Theatre can be used effectively in 21st Century Scotland.