"More than a theatre" – the Forum Theatre as a form of theatrical education

Abstract

The theme of this article is a phrase taken from the title of the book edited by M. Szczepkowska-Pustkowska and E. Rodziewicz – "More Than Theatre – Art Engaged and Engaging Educationally" of Romany Miller inspirations for Contemporary Pedagogy". The task which coexisted with my scientific research was to make a description of characteristics of an educational influences of the Forum Theatre on a background of consultative features of theatrical education. This task I have realized in the two stages. As a first one I have carried out an identification and analysis of features of the theatrical education. The next one, following the background of the previous one, I have described educational influences of the Forum Theater in relation to analytic categories being a result of preceding explorations such as dialog, multi-subjections, education through a fictional world, smoothing over borders, the same edge education, transformative experience, transgression.