Applied drama and forum theatre in the classroom: An arts-based research in social integration

Applied theatre and drama in the school are able to reveal aspects of social life on dramatic, narrative, reflective, symbolic, and aesthetic levels (revealing the necessity of human conditions), thus eliciting a reaction from the audience: committed creative work and self-reflective feedback, during the increasingly deeper learning process transform the "spectator" into a thinking-playing individual (Boal, 1979(Boal, /2000)).