Legislative Theatre Jose Estrada

When reading the excerpts on the Carnival I thought it was very interesting in the reasoning and the ideology behind bringing normal people together. This idea of games, fun and laughter being used to integrate normal people into theatre made sense because in a way it allows peoples to open up through laughter. It also makes people want to come back into a community of people that they usually never see. I think that allowing different people within a society to come together and be creative together not only provides a space for collaboration but a space for communication. THis communications allows for transparency in similarities in problems and issues that helps unite the people. I understand that maybe when these people go home and return to their everyday lives there may not be immediate action. But I do believe as word gets around and people begin to educate them selves and learn more through these Carnivals, it allows for more educated people within these oppressed places and the possibility for change in the future then becomes greater.