The effect of Augusto Boal's "Legislative Theatre" method on law and democratization

The Legislative Theatre is a method that was experienced when Augusto Boal worked as a city council member in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil between the years of 1992-1996. Emerged with the use of the forum theatre method in the production of politics and drafting the resolutions in company with the main principles of the Theatre of the Oppressed, this method can be considered as a type of the direct democracy practices. With a perspective of social justice, material equality and liberation, the Legislative Theatre can be regarded as a method that strengthens people's participation in decision making process for using and distributing resources and determining the public policies. The aim of this study is to present the Legislative Theatre by discussing it in the context of law and democratization. For this, primarily the place of the Legislative Theatre in law is evaluated in the context of Critical Judicial Approaches. Thereafter, it is evaluated how the law mediates the change in the relation between the law and the social change and how the Legislative Theatre method can contribute to the democratization during this change.