Theatre for Peacebuilding by Nilanjana Premaratna

Author:Nilanjana Premaratna
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Creating Space for Parties and Narratives in Conflict

Peacebuilding takes place through Jana Karaliya’s theatre practice. Inoka, a team member observes that the transformation is something “so subtle” that she cannot express it in words: as she says, it happens through the drama, the touring, in the mobile theatre , and in the interaction with the community through the drama. 55 In closer examination, we can identify three levels at which the multivocality and dialogic of Jana Karaliya changes attitudes at to create a space where parties and narratives in conflict can come together: personal, emotional and societal. This is to say that the dialogic and multivocality of Jana Karaliya’s theatre form (1) provides a forum through which individuals can come to terms with their personal experiences of conflict and become more attuned to understanding and appreciating the former enemies; (2) facilitates ways in which individuals and groups can come to terms with the deep emotional wounds inflicted by conflict; and (3) makes the surrounding societal discourses more attuned to accommodating parties that were once in conflict and create more inclusive and pluralist historical narratives. These three methods, spanning the personal, emotional, and societal spheres, facilitate bringing the parties and narratives in conflict together through the space of theatre .

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