THEATRE AND LEARNING: A CASE OF GENDER ISSUE

Abstract

Theatre is one of the social interventions for gender learning in Thai society. This paper is an attempt to study the role of theatre in this regard. The study reveals that differences in forms and contents of the theatre results in differences of learning. Simplified realistic form (with the content that challenges the audiences’ existing gender perspective) can bring about learning better than those of complicated forms with non-challenging contents. However, audiences’ characteristics and backgrounds, and social context related to gender issues are complicatedly involved in gender learning through the theatre.