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"You are the Eggs who shall never go against the Stone"

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On the 19 and 20 of October 2015 was the significant days I would like to remember. Our organisation would run two sessions at the Greater Mekong Forum held in Phnom Penh on the topic of the gender impact on communities affected by the hydropower dam development project. In order to present the issues and the intervention of our work more interactive, the team suggested that we put out the play to illustrate the issues. Thus, we invited an international consultant that have many years of experience running the forum theatre to facilitate the team discussion on how to present the issues. We spent the 19 of October within a room with our facilitator, Jhalmar. He is indeed an interesting, an interesting joker. This is confirmed much stronger to me through my informal chat with him later during a day-out trip organised by our office. Anyway, the forum theatre - or The Theatre of the Oppressed  as I like to call -  is an interesting methodology in which the audience of the theat...