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In the Jungle of Contradictions or Where Have All The Grassroots Gone?

'The joke of contradiction' is a key phrase in shedding light upon both the structures and the aesthetics of Theatre for Development (TfD). At the structural level contradiction determines the shaping process of the narratives that participants in a TfD process give to the stories quarried from their own lived experiences. Through subjecting these experiences to the analytical possibilities of paradox and irony, the contradictions contained within the stories begin to emerge.