SCHOOL BULLYING and a troubled child in the home are the themes of two plays which will be staged under the title Choices by ALâ Community Theatre, in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Schoolbully explores a parent’s and child’s struggle to deal with bullying in a school while Invisible Scars will ask audiences how they could help a child who appears to have major trouble at home.
The style of these plays is called Forum Theatre. It is an interactive theatre form developed in the early 1970s by Augusto Boal.
An audience is shown a short play in which a central character encounters an obstacle which s/he is unable to overcome. When the play is finished the audience can take to the stage and suggest alternative options for how the protagonist could have acted. The actors explore the results of these choices with the audience creating a kind of theatrical debate.
Choices will be staged upstairs in Kelly’s on Wednesday November 24 and Thursday 25. Tickets are €8 and are available at the door.
