Abstract
This essay draws upon inner-city high school students' responses to Lee Daniels's film, Precious, and the wealth of media and Internet parodies that followed its re- lease. These experiences, as narrated by their teacher, provide a platform from which to consider the implications of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Where the inner-city classroom is a stage set for learning and social development, this essay explores the consequences of imposing upon students an inherently em- pirical system of staging that is rooted in what Boal describes as Aristotle's Coercive System of Tragedy. Through questioning the appropriateness and perhaps useful - ness of comedic and unsympathetic responses to Precious's abuse, this essay pro- poses a Brechtian approach to education where students claim ownership of their traumatic experiences in lieu of sympathy.
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