ABSTRACT

This interview was conducted on October 4, 1991 in Toronto, Ontario. The participants were Joan Chandler, Doug Cleverley, Eleanor Crowder, Simon Malbogat, Rhonda Payne, and Julie Salverson. An edited transcript was sent to Augusto Boal, David Diamond, and Lib Spry. Their responses to direct references about their work have been included as interview notes. [MS]

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SCHUTZMAN: In the course of conversations with most of you I was overwhelmed by the amount of TO [Theatre of the Oppressed] work going on here in Canada. But I didn’t quite understand how the work is being used, why there are problems with it, who you each work with, what the differences of practice and ideology might be. I thought everyone might benefit from talking about these ideas together in a roundtable interview.