User:Rafiki Theatre

Rafiki Theatre was a program of the German Civil Peace Service Ziviler-Friedensdienst run by the German Agency AGEH, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe financed by BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung - the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and coordinated by Claus Schrowange. It was later incorporated as a Non-profit Ugandan Organisation in 2010.The Organization worked with Embassies, Universities, UN Agencies, and related individuals in aereas relating to Peace-building, Gender, Communication, Media, Education, Conscientization, Arts, Culture, Trauma, and Wash. The Organisation combined the techniques of 3 theatre directors namely Jerzy Growtoski of poor theatre, Keith Johnstone of improvisation theatre, and the Brazilian god-father of theatre of the Oppressed–Augusto Boal. The first director of the organisation, Claus Schrowange (later succeeded by Hussein Maddan) had been a life student of Hungarian Gabor Csetneki. Claus the techniques of the three theatre directors to up with the 'Rafiki Experience' - which later spread around the Great Lakes Countries as more organisations adopted it in their work especially peace building. The Rafiki Experience, at the climax of its application, caused much controversy among its clients who experienced it; its dramaturgy and the stature of its actors were developed to present messages in a psychologically provocative manner before the audience.