Stacia Hitt What A Riot "UPSET" Late

In Upset we explore racism and resistance. Modeled after Augusto Boal we follow different people struggling in an unrefined system of hate. These events of the past can be presented and debated to encourage dialogue from the perspectives of the individual. It is important to ask questions and disagree! Too many times there are lies because no one wants to put themselves in a position of being wrong because of their ego power trip. Most times the violence comes from the people in power. These are the people with money to shut everyone else up. With everything I believe there is a yin and a yang, the joker system establishes a balance between the two to have a safe space to critically analyze. “The joker system is built to incorporate all varying points of view as they arise in the process of making the piece: questions, disagreements, even moral outrage, have a designated place (usually through the chorus) within the structure.” In every performance you will find criticism and Upset took heat for pushing ideas onto the youth but I bring up the fact that I think everything a person encounters is being taken in and changing that person in some way or another. Why not have the children in a setting like this analyzing and discussing human flaws that they will hopefully never have to run into. How could the writer not incorporate their politics and ideas into their work that’s like telling them to just stand in the room with your kids and not produce anything? Youth is going to learn from what they are experiencing. I think upset is a better outlet for the youth to express themselves in a group than them being on the streets doing what they are pretending to do in a show.