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Experiencing Kachahari Theater: Participants Comments
How is the theatre training different from other kinds of trainings?
02. May 2003
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- It is informal, participatory, democratic in nature and creative in nature. The pith of the training is that it revolved around a conflict exposing the complexities of life and the ways to solve those problems. The language of the facilitator is easy and lucid to understand. The theatre training program is spicy because the training was focused on the possible day-to-day ethnic, regional, and linguistic problems.
- The training involves those who are likely to be victims of discriminations in the society. This training is particularly interesting than any other kinds of trainings because it teaches the participants to play a proactive role to root out the conventional social evils and teaches the practical methods to do so.
- The learning was great because we now know how to mould the issues of conflicts into the plot for drama to expose them further to eventually lead them along the line of solution.
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- There was no need for any recreation or break during the training because the whole learning process was exciting. The training stirs the human sentiments and helps the participants to think seriously the ways to solve them. The style of the facilitator rendering training skills was very participatory and effective. The theatre training is very effective and at the same time it is very useful because it draws a lot of attention amongst the villagers who come to see the drama and go home with a new learning.
- Other trainings usually provide the knowledge on education and health but the theatre program boosts the will power and confidence of the participants and urge them to exploit their hidden talents.
- The wallpaper produced during the training provided the basic know how about journalism but such was never done in other trainings.
- Other trainings require the mental work but the conflict theatre calls for the use of both body and mind.
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How will the community benefit by staging a drama in the villagers with villagers as the audience?
- Conflicts that have long been hidden under the carpet will come out to the surface and will initiate the process of solving the conflicts
- People at the community level will themselves discuss their problems and will be effortful to solve them- Raising debates on topical issues will raise arguments for and against the topic and will urge the two sides to find a point of understanding.
- Participatory advocacy exercise will help raise awareness in the community. - It will boost the confidence of the participants to come in the frontier to perform.
- Village artists will learn about the forum theatre and will experiment their learning to raise awareness in their society.
- I expect to focus the learning of the training to strike at the crucial conflicts existing in society by being the part of the problem and in solving it out.
- The village theatre will hopefully expose the glaring social evils like gender gap, women trafficking, domestic violence, untouchability and unemployment and prompt the people to find their solution in a non- violent way.
- Nepal is beset with series socio-economic and political problems and the conflict theater training program will give awareness to people to seek a peaceful solution to those problems.
- The learning from the village theatre will implant news ideas to the participants by convincing them to do away with superstitious and conventional beliefs. People in the villages are undergoing all kinds of problems because they are not in a position to see their problem as problem. The training has helped us to know how to strike at the problems and how can the problems be coped with.
