#theatre

🇿🇦 South Africa · Isango Ensemble

A Cape Town theatre company built almost entirely from township performers with no formal training reimagines Western opera and classics through South African music, dance and marimba.

🇮🇳 India · Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed

Villagers across rural Bengal stage forum theatre plays that let audiences step onstage and rehearse standing up to domestic violence, child marriage and corruption.

🇵🇸 Palestine · The Freedom Theatre

A theatre school inside Jenin refugee camp has given Palestinian children a stage and a camera as tools of nonviolent resistance since 2006.

🇲🇼 Malawi · Theatre for a Change

Interactive drama is helping Malawian teachers and girls take control of their sexual and reproductive health in a country where a third of girls are pregnant by 18.