This project sets out a theory of how performance can contribute to the spread of ecological values as we, as a species, confront the challenges of the Anthropocene. In response to the theory that the roots of the contemporary ecological crisis lie in the agricultural revolution, the project examines an archive of performances that engage questions of agriculture, land use, and anthropogenic climate change. Chapter 1 looks at mainstream, Western dramas that depict ecodystopian futures; chapter 2 looks at teatros in the Chicano movements and their anti-agribusiness actos; chapter 3 looks at rural, community responsive theater on public lands threatened by fossil fuel development; and chapter 4 looks at anti-pipeline ritual performance in the Niobrara River Valley. These objects of analysis are united in their activist drive to dislodge the values that undergird industrial agriculture and replace them with ecological values. The project argues that an understanding of performance as “performance-assemblage” can help to explain its power to bring about this transvaluation by drawing on the posthuman characteristics of assemblages to “deterritorialize” and “reterritorialize”—that is, to shift elements from one assemblage to another, and to alter the meaning of those elements and assemblages in the process.

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Thesis (MDram)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Creative expression is influenced by social structures and the political climate of the day. Therefore theatre as a social structure has been directly influenced by colonialism and apartheid. Restricting legislation had a limiting influence on cultural activities and freedom of creative expression. The following terms all refer to community based theatre activities: Community Theatre, Popular Theatre, Theatre for Development, People's Theatre and sometimes Workshop Theatre. Community theatre in post-colonial African countries take place in locations easily accessible to the communities it serves. These activities make use of creative techniques that the target communities can identify with. The subject-matter is generally relevant and is therefore accessible. The conscientisation- and mobilisation-potential of community theatre become evident in post-colonial African countries. The uses of this term in South Africa is closely connected with the above, but the applications in practice are more diverse because of a longer period of Western influence. Popular Theatre encapsulates theatre activities focussing on mass-appeal and popular entertainment as well as theatre activities by and for marginalised communities. "Popular Theatre" activities that take place within marginalised communities make use of collective creative approaches that are aimed at community conscientisation and mobilisation. Like Community Theate and Popular Theatre, Theatre for Development is theatre for, by and of the people (marginalised people, ordinary workers and the unemployed). Certain Theatre for Development projects approach the target communities with pre-planned agendas and creative subject-matter. Theatre for Development, like other community based theatre forms, are aimed at conscientisation, mobilisation and organisation to encourage political liberation and promote a higher standard ofliving. Workshop Theatre encourages people to express themselves by using a democratic and collective creative approach. These characteristics are also present in the previously mentioned theatre forms. Community Theatre, Popular Theatre and Theatre for Development can all be categorised as community based theatre and the terms are interchangable in pracitce. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Politieke omstandighede en daaglikse gebeure beïnvloed die keuse van uitdrukkingsvorme. Kolonialisme en veral die apartheidsbeleid in Suid-Afrika het sosiale strukture, waaronder teater, beïnvloed. Wetgewing en beperkte infrastruktuur het kulturele aktiwiteite, kreatiewe uitdrukking en kulturele vloei beperk. Gemeenskapsgebaseerde teateraktiwiteite in Suid-Afrika word meestal benoem met die volgende terme: Gemeenskapsteater, Populêre Teater, Teater vir Ontwikkeling, "People's Theatre", asook Werkswinkelteater wat in Suid-Afrika soms sosio-polities van aard is. Gemeenskapsteater in post-koloniale Afrika-lande is ten opsigte van vorm en inhoud vir die teikengemeenskap toeganklik en vind plaas in maklik bereikbare ruimtes. Die bewusmakings- en mobiliseringspotensiaal van Gemeenskapsteater kom sterk na vore in post-koloniale Afrika-lande. Die gebruike van die term "Gemeenskapsteater" in Suid- Afrika sluit by bogenoemde aan, maar het ook meer diverse toepassings wat by ontwikkelde lande se beskouings aansluit. Populêre Teater ondervang teateraktiwiteite wat fokus op massa-aanhang, sowel as teateraktiwiteite wat gemik is op gemarginaliseerdes. In laasgenoemde konteks is dit gerig op bemagtiging en word 'n kollektiewe skeppingsproses gebruik. Teater vir Ontwikkeling is soos Gemeenskapsteater en Populêre Teater, teater vir, deur en van "die mense" (gemarginaliseerdes, massa gewone werkers en werkloses). Anders as Gemeenskapsteater kan daar 'n voorafopgestelde agenda of gekose onderwerp wees. Soos ander gemeenskapsgebaseerde teater strewe dit na bewusmaking, mobilisasie en organisasie ter wille van bevryding en verhoogde lewensstandaarde in gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe. Werkswinkelteater het 'n demokratiese en kollektiewe skeppingsproses wat selfvertroue en die vermoë tot uitdrukking aanmoedig. Dit is 'n eienskap wat ook teenwoordig is in die voorafgenoemde teatervorme. Teateraktiwiteite wat met die terme Gemeenskapsteater, Populêre Teater en Teater vir Ontwikkeling benoem word, kan gekatagoriseer word as gemeenskapsgebaseerde teater en is dikwels in die praktyk omruilbaar.

Thesis (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is a study of Theatre for Development (TfD) in Kenya. It is an attempt to map out and describe different manifestations of the practice which would, in a way, act as a critical model for practitioners and other stakeholders. However, this is in no way an attempt to provide a rigid all-purpose theoretical model, but nonetheless to offer ways, through a description of aspects of Theatre for Development, within which and through which social and behavioural transformations in this eclectic field may take place. To this end, case studies of a few indicative and contrasting examples of Theatre for Development will be used to provide a mirror which will enable its practitioners to reflect upon and critique their own practices as a way of achieving optimum effectiveness. The works of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal provide the study with a theoretical model in which its basic assumptions and arguments are tested and developed. These two authors, whose works are related in many ways, privilege the use of participatory approaches in the process of creating critical consciousness and promoting change in the individual and in society; these are fundamental requirements in any meaningful practice of Theatre for Development. The findings of this study reveal the discursive and eclectic state of the practice of Theatre for Development in Kenya as originating from a multiplicity of factors such as the skills (or lack thereof) of the practitioners, government interference and the prescriptive agenda and demands of the project funding bodies, institutions and agencies as well as the proliferation of NGOs using Theatre for Development but lacking its foundational philosophy and methodology. This study therefore suggests that, for the enterprise to be more effective and efficient there is a serious need to reflect critically on its procedures and methodology in order to improve and guide its operation. These fundamental aspects include collaborative research, codification, interactive participation, and facilitation and intervention, and are not prescriptive matters but descriptive, arrived at through a critical analysis of a number of Theatre for Development activities in Kenya. Ultimately the research process has thus highlighted a number of weaknesses and strengths in the practice of Theatre for Development in Kenya. Because Theatre for Development is a performance event, the study utilised both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This was necessary, because the study depended on a bibliographical review, unstructured interviews and action research, where the researcher participated in Theatre for Development projects, happenings and related activities / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie is ‘n ondersoek na Teater vir Ontwikkelling in Kenya. Dit poog om die verskillende manifestasies van die praktyk te karteer en beskryf waardeur dit, tot ‘n mate, a kritiese model vir praktisyns en aandeelhouers kan dien. Die onderneming is egter op geen wyse ‘n soeke na ‘n rigiede, allesomvattende teoretiese model nie, maar bied tog ‘n beskrywing van aspekte van Teater vir Ontwikkelling waarbinne en waardeur transformasie van sosiale optrede en handeling in hierdie eklektiese veld kan plaasvind. Met dit in gedagte word na ‘n aantal toepaslike en kontrasterende gevallestudies van Teater vir Ontwikkelling gekyk om ‘n perspektief te ontwikkel wat praktisyns in staat sal stel om hulle eie praktyke krities en effektief te kan evalueer. Die werk en geskrifte van Paulo Freire en Augusto Boal verskaf die teoretiese model vir hierdie ondersoek, wat die basiese beginsels en uitgangspunte daarvan in die Afrika-konteks uittoets en ontwikkel. Hierdie skrywers, wie se werke nou verband hou met mekaar, gee voorkeur aan ‘n interaktiewe, deelnemende benaderings tot die ontwikkelling van ‘n kritiese bewussyn en die stimulering van verandering by die individu en in die gemeenskap. Dié benaderings is fundamenteel tot enige sinvolle aanwending van Teater vir Ontwikkelling. Daar is bevind dat die beoefening van Teater vir Ontwikkelling in Kenia uiters eklekties en uiteenlopend van aard is en dat hierdie stand van sake toegeskryf kan word aan ‘n verskeidenheid faktore, insluitend die vaardighede (of tekort aan vaardighede) van praktisyns, inmenging deur die regering, voorskriftelike agendas en vereistes gestel deur borge en befondsingsagentskappe, edm. ‘n Ander faktor is die geweldige toename in nie-regeringsorganisasies (NGO’s) wat van Teater vir Ontwikkelling gebruik maak terwyl hulle nie oor die basiese filosofiese en metodologiese kennis en opleiding beskik nie. Die bevinding is dus dat sodanige programme slegs meer effektief en doeltreffend bedryf kan word indien daar ernstig besin word oor fundamentele prosedures en metodologieë, om aan die verdere bedryf van die program(me) rigting te kan gee en uitkomste te verbeter. Fundamentele aspekte hierby betrek sou insluit spannavorsing, samewerking, kodifisering, interaktiewe deelname, fasilitering en intervensie, wat nie voorskriftelik is nie, maar beskrywend en rigtinggewend van aard, afgelei uit ‘n kritiese ontleding van ‘n aantal Teater vir Ontwikkelling aktiwiteite in Kenia. Die navorsing het dus uiteindelik ‘n aantal sterk- en swakpunte in die praktyk van Teater vir Ontwikkelling in Kenia belig. Omdat Teater vir Ontwikkelling ‘n aanbiedings-gebeurtenis (“performance event”) is, het die ondersoek beide kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodes gebruik. Dit was nodig omdat die ondersoek gebruik gemaak het van formele literatuurstudie, sowel as ongestruktureerde onderhoude en aksienavorsing, waartydens die navorser self deelgeneem het aan van die Teater vir Ontwikkelling projekte, gebeure en aktiwiteite.

Esta dissertação circunscreve os mecanismos de organização e criação de três grupos teatrais radicados no distrito de Barão Geraldo, Campinas, SP. Os dados são coletados a partir de observações, anotações de campo e entrevistas. Como forma narrativa, procuramos colocar em relevo a subjetividade entredita nos discursos e práticas. Retraçamos o percurso histórico do lugar e dos três grupos eleitos para a análise: o Lume Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais, a Boa Companhia de Teatro e o Barracão Teatro. A partir dessas trajetórias, descortinamos um panorama bastante peculiar do fazer artístico em território de reminiscências rurais, outrora ocupado por fazendas de café e de cana-de-açúcar, entre os séculos XIX e XX, e convertido à modernidade com a chegada do campus da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), na década de 1960. A maioria dos atores-criadores estuda ou ministra aula no Departamento de Artes Cênicas do Instituto de Artes. Primeiro como laboratório de movimentos corporais, depois como núcleo, o Lume é vinculado à instituição e, após anos de reivindicação, obtém infraestrutura razoável para manter-se. Boa Companhia e Barracão Teatro seguem caminhos independentes, mas seus profissionais também têm a universidade como referência. Os artistas fundam e sistematizam uma rigorosa pesquisa voltada à arte de ator contemplada em diferentes linhagens, como a máscara, o clown e a mimese corpórea. Seus processos transparecem uma deontologia para o ofício que abraçam. Os três grupos possuem sedes em Vila Santa Isabel. Atualmente, somando outros bairros de Barão Geraldo, existem pelo menos mais 12 coletivos em atividade. Eles sintonizam a crescente produção do Teatro de Grupo no Brasil, a partir dos anos 1990, cuja tônica são os chamados espetáculos experimentais gerados em modo colaborativo e fomentados por políticas culturais que valorizam a cidadania. A contradição evidente dessa cultura de grupo, no distrito, é a extrema dificuldade em cativar o espectador vizinho, os ditos nativos, que também se autoexcluem por associar o teatro à UNICAMP, herança do choque socioeconômico de sua implantação. Isso relativiza a vitória artística e chama aos desafios da vida artística em comunidade. / This work describes the mechanism of organization and creation of three theater groups from a small town called Barão Geraldo located in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The data were collected through observation and interviews. In a narration form we aimed to detach the subjectivity in the discourses and practices of those groups. We traced the historical background of the town and of the groups: Lume - Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais, Boa Companhia de Teatro e Barracão Teatro. From a historical perspective we exposed a broad and peculiar view of making art in an area where coffee and sugar cane farms existed between XIX and XX centuries and which was occupied by Campinas State University in the 1960\'s bringing some modernity to the space, but also some social and economical shock. Most of the actors-creators study or teach at Departamento de Artes Cênicas do Instituto de Artes (Institute of Art). Lume became part of the University first as a lab for studying and training the body movements, then as an interdisciplinary center of theatrical research and after some struggle it has some institutional support to keep their work. Boa Companhia and Barracão follow independents paths, but their workers have the university as a reference. The artists found and systematize a meticulous research towards the art of the actor, through the study of masks, the clown art and the body mimesis. Their processes display a deontoly to their work. The three groups have their offices in Santa Isabel Village. Nowadays, there are at least 12 collectives working in the surroundings of Barão Geraldo. They harmonize with the increasing theater group production in Brazil since the 1990\'s, which are called experimental spectacle\' created collectively and motivated by cultural policies which focus on citizenship. The evident contradiction of a group culture is the difficulty in captivating the local public, who exclude themselves because of the impact the University had on them in the past. This exhilarates an artistic victory and challenges the life of art in the community.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2008. / Document formatted into pages; contains v, 117 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Esta dissertação circunscreve os mecanismos de organização e criação de três grupos teatrais radicados no distrito de Barão Geraldo, Campinas, SP. Os dados são coletados a partir de observações, anotações de campo e entrevistas. Como forma narrativa, procuramos colocar em relevo a subjetividade entredita nos discursos e práticas. Retraçamos o percurso histórico do lugar e dos três grupos eleitos para a análise: o Lume Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais, a Boa Companhia de Teatro e o Barracão Teatro. A partir dessas trajetórias, descortinamos um panorama bastante peculiar do fazer artístico em território de reminiscências rurais, outrora ocupado por fazendas de café e de cana-de-açúcar, entre os séculos XIX e XX, e convertido à modernidade com a chegada do campus da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), na década de 1960. A maioria dos atores-criadores estuda ou ministra aula no Departamento de Artes Cênicas do Instituto de Artes. Primeiro como laboratório de movimentos corporais, depois como núcleo, o Lume é vinculado à instituição e, após anos de reivindicação, obtém infraestrutura razoável para manter-se. Boa Companhia e Barracão Teatro seguem caminhos independentes, mas seus profissionais também têm a universidade como referência. Os artistas fundam e sistematizam uma rigorosa pesquisa voltada à arte de ator contemplada em diferentes linhagens, como a máscara, o clown e a mimese corpórea. Seus processos transparecem uma deontologia para o ofício que abraçam. Os três grupos possuem sedes em Vila Santa Isabel. Atualmente, somando outros bairros de Barão Geraldo, existem pelo menos mais 12 coletivos em atividade. Eles sintonizam a crescente produção do Teatro de Grupo no Brasil, a partir dos anos 1990, cuja tônica são os chamados espetáculos experimentais gerados em modo colaborativo e fomentados por políticas culturais que valorizam a cidadania. A contradição evidente dessa cultura de grupo, no distrito, é a extrema dificuldade em cativar o espectador vizinho, os ditos nativos, que também se autoexcluem por associar o teatro à UNICAMP, herança do choque socioeconômico de sua implantação. Isso relativiza a vitória artística e chama aos desafios da vida artística em comunidade. / This work describes the mechanism of organization and creation of three theater groups from a small town called Barão Geraldo located in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The data were collected through observation and interviews. In a narration form we aimed to detach the subjectivity in the discourses and practices of those groups. We traced the historical background of the town and of the groups: Lume - Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais, Boa Companhia de Teatro e Barracão Teatro. From a historical perspective we exposed a broad and peculiar view of making art in an area where coffee and sugar cane farms existed between XIX and XX centuries and which was occupied by Campinas State University in the 1960\'s bringing some modernity to the space, but also some social and economical shock. Most of the actors-creators study or teach at Departamento de Artes Cênicas do Instituto de Artes (Institute of Art). Lume became part of the University first as a lab for studying and training the body movements, then as an interdisciplinary center of theatrical research and after some struggle it has some institutional support to keep their work. Boa Companhia and Barracão follow independents paths, but their workers have the university as a reference. The artists found and systematize a meticulous research towards the art of the actor, through the study of masks, the clown art and the body mimesis. Their processes display a deontoly to their work. The three groups have their offices in Santa Isabel Village. Nowadays, there are at least 12 collectives working in the surroundings of Barão Geraldo. They harmonize with the increasing theater group production in Brazil since the 1990\'s, which are called experimental spectacle\' created collectively and motivated by cultural policies which focus on citizenship. The evident contradiction of a group culture is the difficulty in captivating the local public, who exclude themselves because of the impact the University had on them in the past. This exhilarates an artistic victory and challenges the life of art in the community.

A reflexão aqui desenvolvida corresponde a uma análise de parte da produção teatral dos espetáculos destinados ao público adulto apresentada na cidade de São Paulo, durante a década de 1980. Partindo-se do pressuposto contrário ao encontrado na totalidade das fontes disponíveis acerca do período, segundo o qual se tratava de uma década perdida, apresentam-se aqui significativas evidências documentais: das escritas, às visuais, passando pelas coletadas em entrevistas com destacados pensadores e criadores do período, com o fito de demonstrar, como em qualquer outro período histórico, quão rica, polêmica e diversificada foi aquela produção. Contrapondo documentos teatrais aos políticos em uma década de crise econômica mundial e em que o País, formalmente, livra-se de uma ditadura instaurada em 1964 e mobiliza-se pela construção de um de seus mais significativos movimentos populares as Diretas Já busca-se, nesse rico processo de transição, recuperar concepções, sonhos e experiências de inúmeros artistas cujas trajetórias não constam ou raramente são descritas pela memória cultural e oficial do País; rigorosamente autoritária e excludente. Buscando articular crises e superações por que tantos coletivos e sujeitos passaram no período, driblando taticamente múltiplas formas censórias e de patrulhamento ideológico, são apresentadas as trajetórias, por intermédio de procedimentos da história oral, de dois importantes grupos do teatro paulistano: o Teatro Popular União e Olho Vivo (TUOV), fundado em 1966, e ainda em exercício, enfatizando o trabalho dramatúrgico de seu diretor César Vieira (Idibal Pivetta); e o Apoena/Engenho, fundado em 1979, igualmente em exercício, enfatizando o tratamento épico e político de suas montagens, que tanta animosidade causa entre seus pares, por conta dos radicalismos políticos do diretor do grupo, Luiz Carlos Moreira. Para completar a reflexão, apresenta-se como anexo o levantamento, decorrente do processo de pesquisa desenvolvido, composto por fichas técnicas de 2.042 espetáculos de teatro adulto, coletadas em sete fontes documentais diversas: anuários de teatro e dança, entrevistas, jornais, livros especializados, programas de teatro, releases e revistas especializadas / This analysis focus on the theater made for adults in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, between the years of 1980 and 1990. Until now many researchers think that this was a lost decade in the theater realm, because they do not recognize the immense aesthetic value of the Brazilian drama in this period. Nevertheless, based on an extended documentation and statements of many artists who were active during those years, I affirm that the period was of a rich, polemic, and diversified production. On political terms, it corresponds to the end of a long and recent-ended dictatorship and to the first steps of new democratic era, which certainly are interconnected. At that time the artists lived an intense fight not only against the censorship, but also against the political and aesthetic prejudice from many leftists, and asked for an openly political agenda also in theater field. The groups under scrutiny are TUOV Teatro Popular União e Olho Vivo, (Popular Theater Union and Live Eye) that started in 1966 leaded by the director César Vieira (Idibal Pivetta); and Apoena/Engenho that started in 1979 leaded by its radical director, Luiz Carlos Moreira. Both groups are still active nowadays. In this work, I focus mainly on the epic and political treatment of their polemic performances of the play \"Apoena l.\" At the end I publish an extensive list of 2.042 performances of the period

A reflexão aqui desenvolvida corresponde a uma análise de parte da produção teatral dos espetáculos destinados ao público adulto apresentada na cidade de São Paulo, durante a década de 1980. Partindo-se do pressuposto contrário ao encontrado na totalidade das fontes disponíveis acerca do período, segundo o qual se tratava de uma década perdida, apresentam-se aqui significativas evidências documentais: das escritas, às visuais, passando pelas coletadas em entrevistas com destacados pensadores e criadores do período, com o fito de demonstrar, como em qualquer outro período histórico, quão rica, polêmica e diversificada foi aquela produção. Contrapondo documentos teatrais aos políticos em uma década de crise econômica mundial e em que o País, formalmente, livra-se de uma ditadura instaurada em 1964 e mobiliza-se pela construção de um de seus mais significativos movimentos populares as Diretas Já busca-se, nesse rico processo de transição, recuperar concepções, sonhos e experiências de inúmeros artistas cujas trajetórias não constam ou raramente são descritas pela memória cultural e oficial do País; rigorosamente autoritária e excludente. Buscando articular crises e superações por que tantos coletivos e sujeitos passaram no período, driblando taticamente múltiplas formas censórias e de patrulhamento ideológico, são apresentadas as trajetórias, por intermédio de procedimentos da história oral, de dois importantes grupos do teatro paulistano: o Teatro Popular União e Olho Vivo (TUOV), fundado em 1966, e ainda em exercício, enfatizando o trabalho dramatúrgico de seu diretor César Vieira (Idibal Pivetta); e o Apoena/Engenho, fundado em 1979, igualmente em exercício, enfatizando o tratamento épico e político de suas montagens, que tanta animosidade causa entre seus pares, por conta dos radicalismos políticos do diretor do grupo, Luiz Carlos Moreira. Para completar a reflexão, apresenta-se como anexo o levantamento, decorrente do processo de pesquisa desenvolvido, composto por fichas técnicas de 2.042 espetáculos de teatro adulto, coletadas em sete fontes documentais diversas: anuários de teatro e dança, entrevistas, jornais, livros especializados, programas de teatro, releases e revistas especializadas / This analysis focus on the theater made for adults in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, between the years of 1980 and 1990. Until now many researchers think that this was a lost decade in the theater realm, because they do not recognize the immense aesthetic value of the Brazilian drama in this period. Nevertheless, based on an extended documentation and statements of many artists who were active during those years, I affirm that the period was of a rich, polemic, and diversified production. On political terms, it corresponds to the end of a long and recent-ended dictatorship and to the first steps of new democratic era, which certainly are interconnected. At that time the artists lived an intense fight not only against the censorship, but also against the political and aesthetic prejudice from many leftists, and asked for an openly political agenda also in theater field. The groups under scrutiny are TUOV Teatro Popular União e Olho Vivo, (Popular Theater Union and Live Eye) that started in 1966 leaded by the director César Vieira (Idibal Pivetta); and Apoena/Engenho that started in 1979 leaded by its radical director, Luiz Carlos Moreira. Both groups are still active nowadays. In this work, I focus mainly on the epic and political treatment of their polemic performances of the play \"Apoena l.\" At the end I publish an extensive list of 2.042 performances of the period

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur pedagogiska dramametoder kan användas i socialt arbete för att öka reflektion i den professionelles arbetsliv. Vidare undersöktes huruvida verksamheter som arbetar med pedagogiska dramametoder bidrar till att uppmärksamma och stötta utsatta och marginaliserade grupper i samhället. Informanter från olika verksamheter i södra Skåne presenterade i sex halvstrukturerade intervjuer olika kreativa arbetsmetoder som de använder sig av. Informanterna arbetar bland annat på uppdrag av statliga och kommunala verksamheter, men även med egna fristående produktioner för att bearbeta olika etiska frågor i samhället. Då dramapedagogiska metoder har visat sig bidra till djupgående och aktiva reflektioner är resultatet att dessa metoder kan användas som gynnsamma komplement och alternativ till traditionell handledning. Vidare har olika pedagogiska dramametoder visat sig bidra till att synliggöra marginaliserade människor och öka empowerment. De nedskärningar som görs i kulturbudgeten påverkar således inte bara kulturlivet i sig utan i förlängningen även samhället och det sociala arbetet. De kreativa metoderna skulle kunna nyttjas i mycket större skala, då de har genuin potential för socialt förändringsarbete. / The purpose of this study was to investigate how educational drama methods can be used in social work to increase reflection in the professional’s work life. Furthermore, it was studied whether organizations that work with educational drama methods contribute to supporting vulnerable and marginalized groups in society. I made six semi-structured interviews with informants from different organizations in southern Sweden that presented different creative working methods that they use. The informants work, among other organizations, on behalf of governmental and municipal organizations, but also with their own independent productions to process various ethical issues in society. Since educational drama methods have proven to contribute to in-depth and active reflections, the result is that these methods are favorable complements and alternatives to traditional supervision. Furthermore, various methods that the informants work with have proven to contribute to increased empowerment of marginalized individuals and they have also given them a chance to get their voices heard. The cuts made in the cultural budget therefore not only affect the cultural life itself but likewise the society and social work. The creative methods could be used on a much larger scale, as they have genuine potential to affect change in our society.