Cazuca Dreams On

Tiempo de Juego’s theater participants were invited to participate in the Theater’s Week, a festival organized by the University Pedagógica of Bogotá. In this event, Tiempo de Juego’s group prepared a presentation based on the methodology of the Theater of the Oppressed, a social development strategy used to work amid vulnerable communities.

The Theater of the Oppressed is a theatrical form elaborated by Augusto Boal in Brazil during the 60’s. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, and the "spect-actors” are invited to explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they actors are living.

The theater presentation, called “Whatever it takes in order to be happy”, was organized and executed by the young cultural leaders from the community. They were in charge for writing the dialogues as well as for training the new and younger participants. “Whatever it takes in order to be happy” has been presented twice in different scenarios, showing and representing –through theater- the school issues that children and youth from Cazucá have to face in their daily lives. Thanks to your support, these participants have gained experience in the field and they have learnt that dreaming is all it takes in order to be happy.