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    Forum theatre as a participatory communication space for dialogue, collaboraton and solidarity
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2018) Kunt, Zeynep Feriha Eren; Haydari, Nazan
    This research explores Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre as a participatory communication space. As an interactive form of performance, forum theatre is practiced with the communities experiencing various forms of oppression. As a methodology, forum theatre provides communities with the participatory tools for dialogue, collaboration and a space to develop potential strategies to understand and overcome their oppressions. This study explores the potential of forum theatre as a model for participatory action research by focusing on its reciprocal roles: to reveal social knowledge and start a process for transformation both in individual and collective levels. The discussion is drawn from the fieldwork conducted with a group of doctors who voluntarily came together forming a forum theatre group to develop strategies for maintaining the practices of the good medicine. The three-month long forum theater sessions with the doctors have led to the play called The Dr Good Physician, performed by the doctors for the audience who were colleagues/ “spectactors”. The audience members became spect-actors by acting out the solution strategies presented on stage. The research investigates all stages of forum theatre in terms of its participatory processes through this fieldwork. It is argued that forum theatre presents as a model of participatory communication and action research by “minimising the hierarchy” imposed on participants and maximising the possibility for “becoming active citizens” in life.