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International Theatre of the Oppressed Day
Today, March 16, 2026, Augusto Boal would have turned 95. Brazilian theatre director, playwright and researcher, Boal dedicated his life to developing a theatre that not only represents reality, but allows people to analyze it and transform it collectively.
In the 1950s - 60s Brazil was experiencing profound social and political tensions. Augusto Boal worked at the Arena Theatre of São Paulo as director and dramaturg. In that time, he encountered the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), whose ideas influenced Boal’s search for a theatre where spectators could become active participants rather than passive observers.

In 1964, a military coup established a dictatorship in Brazil. Augusto Boal was arrested in 1971 and later forced to leave the country.

During those years in exile he continued developing his work across Latin America and Europe, working with communities, educators and social movements.

In this context of dictatorship, exile and political struggle, Theatre of the Oppressed was born.

Over the following decades the practice continued to grow and evolve. To explain it, Augusto Boal used the metaphor of a tree that reminds us how Theatre of the Oppressed is a living and evolving practice.

Theatre of the Oppressed was born during a time of crisis with a revolutionary proposal: collective process of creation and reflection to stimulate the research of strategies to overcome injustice.

Crisis is danger and also an opportunity for transformation.

Nowadays its tools are used around the world to analyze oppression, rehearse change and create spaces for democratic participation.

Interested in learning more?
Follow us and join us in 20–30 August 2026 at the Aesthetics of Solidarity — Forum Theatre Festival

All Pictures @instaugustoboal website taken in Kuringa by @tillbaumann_berlin

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“Waterbodies…in the environment and within us”

A performance that gives voice to the waters to get awareness about their struggles and its meaning to human life, inviting the audience to search for strategies to protect them.

Directed by @barbara.kuringa
Music by @tillbaumann_berlin

Presented at @gruener.salon.bln as part of the International Roma Theatre Festival #commontongue organized by @romatrial

With an incredible cast of 20 people @david_mantaua @estera_s.s @verajonas_ @sandravanderkalm @raizerotica @cate___c @gwennnnny @catiaalmeida.santos @jaodardoalbertini @sonya.cipriano @goncalvesgartner

… and the great support of @christophleucht taken in Grüner Salon by @tillbaumann_berlin

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Waterbodies — in the environment and within us

directed by @barbara.kuringa and @tillbaumann_berlin

🗓 October 21, 19:00
📍 Grüner Salon, Volksbühne Berlin
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2

A journey uncovering stories of resilience, ecological injustice, and how denialism fuels polarization and extremism.

The play employs feminist aesthetics and multidimensional languages — sound, rhythm, image, word — to reveal the interconnections between environment and society.

Breaking the “fourth wall,” the staging invites the audience into a shared aesthetic space, transforming spectators into collective experience and opening an interactive dialogue with the audience.

Waterbodies opens the Theatre Festival “Commun Tongue” organized by @romatrial taken in Grüner Salon by @tillbaumann_berlin

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As part of the HEIMATEN FESTIVAL FÜR PLURALE DEMOKRATIE project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt @hkw_berlin , KURINGA, in collaboration with @romatrial , presents the performance WATERBODIES… in the environment and within us:

🗓 Sunday, September 14 ⏰ 3:30 PM 📍 Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin

This theatre piece traces the journey from the Spree to the Baltic Sea, moving through cities to reveal stories of exploitation, resilience, and ecological injustice. Using feminist aesthetics and multidimensional languages —sound, rhythm, image, and movement— it goes beyond words to show how ecological denialism fuels polarization and extremism.

The staging breaks the “fourth wall”: the aesthetic space integrates the audience, creating a collective experience.

After the performance, a Collective Forum will open as an interactive space between stage and audience.

Directed by @barbara.kuringa and @tillbaumann_berlin
 📸 @marvin.systermans at @spore.initiative taken in Haus der Kulturen der Welt by @tillbaumann_berlin

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August 18th to 23rd, KURINGA’ week of artistic expression, aesthetic interaction, and collective dialogue at @uferstudios_tanz_berlin

An encounter of stories of resistance and resilience with theatre #performances workshops, labs of dramaturgy, qualification course and sessions of collective forum. Through artistic languages, the event promotes creative connections and aims both personal and collective transformation.

Theatre Performances: artistic productions where image, word, sound, rhythm and movement are choreographed to stage provocative and urgent social questions — such as racism, toxic masculinity, migration and systemic violence — to invite the audience for a collective reflection about possible alternatives.

Workshops and Labs of Dramaturgy: spaces to reflect, embody, and experiment aesthetics of transformation rooted in Theatre of the Oppressed and Teatro de las Oprimidas.

Collective Forum: after the forum theatre presentations the auditorium becomes a rehearsal ground, a space of hope, community, participation and shared agency. The audience members join together to discuss the topics represented on stage aiming to devise strategies to confront it. The theatre piece will be re-enacting with the participation of the audience members who will try out their ideas on stage, as a collective rehearsal for the transformation of reality.

The “KURINGA week at UFER_STUDIOS” embodies #aesthetics of transformation, artistic production, collective learning and political dialogue, where theatre becomes a platform for encounters and solidarity.

Come and imagine,
act and be part of the Transformation

#berlintheplacetobe #berlintheatre #forumtheatre #theaterderunterdrückten by @tillbaumann_berlin

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Thank you to all participants of Invisible Theatre – Workshop | Action | Reflection (26-29 March 2025) for their amazing creativity and courage!

During the workshop we created scenes on racism and anti-queer discrimination which we performed several times on Saturday 29 March in Berlin public transport.

The performances were exciting practical examples of Invisible Theater as political action in public space which gave us a lot of food for reflection.

Looking forward to remaining in contact and hearing from more experiences of Invisible Theatre!

@tillbaumann_berlin

#invisibletheatre #theatreoftheoppressed #kuringaberlin by @tillbaumann_berlin

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Forum Theatre Weekend is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of participatory theatre and experience the innovative approach developed by KURINGA.

You will have the opportunity to witness performances related to a wide range of social and political issues: colonialism, identity, toxic masculinity… and try out your collective strategies to transform the injustices scenarios presented by the theatre group.

Forum Theatre is Art, Activism , Action

PROGRAM
22 August
18:30: @bralin.theater , “Unfair Trades” a decolonial play

23 August
18: 30: Masculinities Lab, „Wendemöglichkeit“, a play about toxic masculinity

20:30: KURINGA Prouction, directed by Bárbara Santos & Till Baumann

24 August
18:30: @madalena.berlin “Integration- DES- Integration” , a play about identity

20:30: KURINGA Production, directed by Bárbara Santos & Till Baumann

#forumtheatre #kuringaberlin #berlintheater by @tillbaumann_berlin

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