Here, I outline a performative approach to the politicized public sphere specifically drawing on Moises Kaufman’s Laramie Project,1 Saldaña’s call for a critical ethnotheatre that engages key moments in a culture’s history, and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.
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