Political Theatre

To me, Political theatre is about taking risks in performance. Not everything you show your audience is something they are going to enjoy or want to see. Many of the subject matters brought up in Political theatre are things a lot of people are not ready to see or hear or talk about, but it makes you listen and by the end you will be questioning what you saw and be able to discuss more freely topics you would have found difficult to talk about before.

Peter Hall, a famous theatre director in England, wrote that "theatre remains any society's sharpest way to hold a live debate with itself, if it doesn't challenge, provoke or illuminate, it is not fulfilling in its function". This I feel is a very true statement, and I think Political theatre is the best kind of theatre to do that. More often than not it will challenge your beliefs and challenge how you see the world. I believe this is why a fantastic way to perform Political theatre is through Brechtian techniques. Brechtian theatre is ruthless. It does not care whether the audience want to see it or not, it will show it anyway. It will always challenge you and make you think about what you just saw.