Virtual Forum Theater: Creating and Sharing Drama to Resolve Conflicts

Virtual Forum Theater (VFT) is a computer-based learning experience aimed at helping youth learn to cope with oppressive personal and social situations. VFT has three parts: toolset, process, and performance. The VFT toolset is a multimedia tool for creation of dramatic plays using audio, and images that enables participatory and collaborative digital playmaking through the Internet. The VFT process is the collaborative process of creating a digital play, and includes dramatic exercises involving group bonding, social awareness, and improvisational skills. A VFT performance refers to the activity of watching and responding to a previously created VFT play, including proposing and creating alternative solutions.