An Isfahani artist in the Indian TO Festival
Iran Theater- Confirming this news, Mansourzadeh told the Iran Theater reporter in Isfahan: " Theatre of the Oppressed is a theoretical framework and a set of strategies and techniques that give a practical aspect to the art of theater." That is, it turns theater into an opportunity for groups and human communities to design, study, and solve problems. This type of theater was invented in the 1970s by the Brazilian director and actor Augusto Boal, and it has developed and spread throughout the world in its techniques and methods.
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change in alignment originally with radical-left politics and later with centre-left ideology. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.
Hossein Mansourzadeh clarified about the project presented to the festival: The project presented in relation to the role and function of the joint activity of a theater group with labor children and the inspiring and effective role of street and puppet shows on labor children.
Hossein Mansourzadeh has already been selected in several editions of the Iranian Schools Performing Arts Festival and has performed the play "Exploration Comedy" in English at the International School Theater Festival in Olympia Dion, Greece.