ABSTRACT
From the ancient Greeks to Shakespeare to the Theater of the Oppressed, theater has been understood as a means of social transformation and education. In particular, Teatro Campesino (Farmworkers’ Theater), a theatrical group founded in California in 1965 on the picket lines of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union, was rooted in a radical Latin American theater tradition, where all of the original actors of the group were farmworkers, and they performed actos, or short skits, on flatbed trucks and in union halls, enacting events inspired by their lives. This lesson draws on Teatro Campesino to propose a method for students to learn about the lives of others.
