Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed

A grassroots theater movement whose local teams build plays from social problems in their own communities. During Forum Theatre sessions, audience members become spect-actors, enter the action and rehearse possible responses alongside trained performers and activists.

The movement grew from a village in the Sundarbans into thirty satellite teams, including nine all-women teams in West Bengal, and became India's first major exponent of Theatre of the Oppressed.