Community Theatre As Cultural Intervention The Case Of The Samre Community Theatre Project On Evil-eye Organized By The Tigray Arts School

It seems that the traditional canon of conceptualizing theatre along the line of ‘Art forrnArt’s Sake’ ends up in this epoch. Instead its practical relationship with the cultural, socioeconomic,rnand political realities of societies is becoming more apparent and persistent. Thus,rnthe need for community-based-theatre also emanates from its pertinent efficacy in bringingrnchanges within a defined community. These types of theatres are developing and arernfrequently applied for issues akin to the process of community change, in the third worldrncountries. Especially, most community-based theatres echo the very principles of PaulornFreire’s (1993) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which underscores the importance ofrncommunity’s direct participation and their authentic values in education systems.rnBy the same token, the Theatre Department of the Tigray Arts School (in Tigray) hadrnorganized a community-based theatre in 1999 within local community of one rural Woreda,rnSamre. The objective of this community theatre project was meant to specifically deal withrnthe traditions of harmful perceptions particularly related to ‘evil-eye’- with a view to bringingrnattitudinal change amid the cultural context of the whole community and to consequentlyrnbenefit the target communities in the Woreda. Therefore, this thesis inquires into the efficacyrnof the Samre Community Theatre Project as a means of cultural intervention made to benefitrnthe direct victims of ‘evil-eye’ in the given Woreda

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