The author describes the Theatre for Development program in Africa. This program uses native community theater to teach the public lessons about health, work methods, and other topics that the public is unlikely to pursue actively through the print media. (CH)

This book investigates the educative role of theater in processes of social change and development, and considers how to evaluate the use of theater as a small-scale medium in realizing development projects based on a participatory or interventionist model. The book is in three major parts. Following an introduction and an introductory chapter,…