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Theater of the Opressed: Kazmiera Tarshis

Theater of the opressed exists to engage the audience and community in the perfrmance. It offers a vehicle for social change at a very accessible level.  I think the idea of asking the audience what the right choice is or to come up on stage and be a part of the performance is such an interestig cocept. It reminds me of those books that are "choose your own adventure". This seems to be a belief that many different theaters have in their own company beliefs section so it seems to be a relatively popuar idea within the theater world. Or, at leat, well known.  I wonder if having the play interrupted would ruin the imaginary world which has been created. Is there a better way to get the audience involved without changing the traditional structure of a play?

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