Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn

Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn Workshop:

Playback/ Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop

The workshop will focus on a variety of methodologies, most of them participatory and interactive such as Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. We will also look at some of the interactive techniques as innovative approaches to the rehearsal of scripted plays.

Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn Bio

Hjalmar holds a MA in Peace and Development Studies and has been working with different community-based theatre techniques in a variety of countries, including Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, Germany, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, USA and Ukraine. He is one of the founders of the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO; www.ahrdo.org), an all-Afghan community-based theatre platform based in Kabul, Afghanistan.