Interactive Theatre is a presentational style
that breaks the "fourth wall" separating performer and audience both physically and verbally.
In
traditional theater, performance is limited to a designated stage area and the action of the play unfolds without any interplay
with audience members, who function as passive observers. Conversely, in interactive theater, performance may happen amidst
audience members, and often involves the audience in more active roles. They may be asked to hold props, supply performance
suggestions (as in improvisational theatre), share the action's real-world (non-theatrical) setting (as in environmental theatre),
or become characters in the performance.In addition the audience may be asked to participate in altering the course of the
play altogether by taking part in a collective vote to help steer the plot in a new direction. In therapeutic and educational
settings, the audience may even be invited to discuss pertinent issues with the performers. Society for Community Development
used to perform issue based theatre.
SCD has organized theatre on the issues of education, women rights,
child rights, labor rights, farmer’s rights, minority’s rights, peace and interfaith harmony, water, stress, Indo-
Pak relations and so on.
The details of theatre from 2001 to so on are given below.
year |
Issue |
venue |
No. of audience |
|
Joint elections
|
Islamabad
Rawalpindi
Lahore
Faisalabad
Shantinagar (Khanawal)
Gojra
K.C Toba Tek Singh |
2000
500
5000
2500
200
500
400 |
|
Peace
|
St. Peter’s high school, Toba Tek Singh
Francisabad
Lasani hotel, Toba Tek Singh |
50
70
300 |
|
Water
|
Berrianwala
St.Peter’s primary school |
40
70
|
|
Water
|
Berrianwala
St.Peter’s primary school |
40
70
|
|
Asian youth day (peace)
|
Toba Tek Singh
Mumbai, India |
1000 |
|
World social forum( women rights, farmers rights,
hudood ordinance) |
Mumbai, India |
Over 1 lac |
|
Indo-Pak relations
|
Rawalpindi (twice)
Lahore
( four times)
Qasoor
Hafizabad
Jehlem
Chakwal
Duska
Multan
Peermahel
291G/B, Toba Tek Singh (4 times) |
300
300
200
200
300
400
300
150
200
100 |
|
Tenants rights
|
Islamabad
Peerowal, Khanawal
KC, Toba Tek Singh
Peer Mahal |
6000
5000
150
600 |
|
Child rights
|
Jhang
Gojra
291G/B, Toba Tek Singh
St.Peter’s, Toba Tek Singh
Multan |
170
150
150
200
750 |
|
Women’s rights
|
295G/B, Toba Tek Singh
424J/B, Toba Tek Singh |
70 women with Japanese delegation
200 |
|
HR |
2ND Peace rally, Lahore |
6000 |
|
Syllabus |
Lahore and Toba Tek Singh. |
450
200 |
|
Disabled Women |
KC, Toba Tek Singh |
100 |
|
American attack on Iraq |
KC, Toba Tek Singh |
70 |
|
Education |
District Council, Chakwal
Toba Tek Singh
296, Toba
Kamalia
Rajana
Faisalabad
Lahore |
600
400
300
200
300
700
400 |
|
Peace |
Jesus & Mary School, Toba Tek singh
St. Peter’s Primary School, Toba |
100
300 |
|
Pakistan Youth Rally |
Lahore |
250 |
|
Stress |
Cathedral, Lahore
Shama Hall, Lahore
Hotel Alpine, Lahore
Alhamara, Lahore
Regency Hotel, Islamabad
Holiday Inn, Islamabad
Sahiwal
|
1500
500
700
600
400
500
200 |
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