ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the use of specific practices in applied drama to support efforts towards social change. Feminist post structural theorists argue that people need to become aware of the way in which social discourses and institutionalised dividing practices shape the very desires that orient behaviour. Humour can provide a protective frame within which to transgress the niceties of social etiquette. Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winning Indian economist and philosopher who has worked intensively in the area of the relationship between social justice and poverty, also recommends a dialogic process of public reasoning as a method through which to promote human rights. The declaration of human rights including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) have provided a set standards and principles, duties and obligation.
