Applied Theatre: Revisiting the Prospects and Paradigms of Performance

Abstract

During the last three decades, theater witnessed a dynamic in the field of creativity, manifested in the appearance of a variety of theatrical forms and experiences. Its practitioners have also worked on new forms of theater-based performances, outside the framework of mainstream theatre in order to create social change among vulnerable, excluded, and marginalized groups within society. From these theatrical forms, different forms of ‘Applied Theater' have emerged. This study attempts to examine the concept of Applied Theatre, its history, its effective components, and its typologies.