Sunday Feature: Theatre at the Front LineSeries 1, episode 0Zeinab Badawi visits the Albuga Festival in Khartoum to meet actors and directors who are at theatre's front line and use their skills to help communities recover from war. She meets Ali Mahdi, director of the National Theatre in Khartoum and an active member of the International Theatre Institute, who has established a Centre for Theatre in Conflict Zones. Many of the groups have been influenced by the theories of Augusto Boal, who pioneered theatre which works within victimised communities. Zeinab also talks to Thomas Engel and Alexander Stilmark, who have brought Boal's theories to the people of the Sudan, as well as to other Sudanese and international figures Click to see when Sunday Feature, Theatre at the Front Line is coming up on UK TV |
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