Mixed Company production, a story representing an issue is created, rehearsed and performed. The story is then presented again - only this second time, audience members can intervene in the story, as 'spect-actors,' to create a positive alternative ending. A trained Forum Theatre facilitator (the Joker) prepares and encourages participants to replace the actors on stage and to change the story in a constructive way. Mixed Company artists, as well as others in the Forum Theatre community. The Sweet Medicine Teachings of the Metis Medicine Society, in particular the tyrant oppressor wheel, as well as Simon Malbogat's Masks of Manipulation, have contributed to the model of Forum Theatre used by Mixed Company.
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