Transforming Theater for the Oppressed: Community Theater as Urban Poor Discourse in Sining Kadamay’s Gapok

• Main Authors: Pante, Michael D, Nery, Leo Angelo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: informal settlers; community theater; protest art; neoliberalism; Metro Manila; History; Housing Law; Theatre and Performance Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/65; https://ajol.ateneo.edu/kk/articles/82/971
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In March 2017, the issue of urban poor housing was exposed on a national scale when thousands of members of the urban poor group Kadamay forcibly occupied nearly 6,000 abandoned housing units meant for members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in Pandi, Bulaca...