Pasolini and his “Manifesto Theatre”: A New Permanent Poetic Laboratory to Transform Society

How is it possible to reinvent, through Theatre, both transformative education and adult emancipation for a world to come pandemic, especially after the SARS-CoV-2? The purpose of this research is to offer an answer, constructing a teaching method through the experimental use of the Manifesto Theatre by Pier Paolo Pasolini for adult education. According to my research, this experimental method responds to Jack Mezirow’s Theory promoting the synthesis of three elements: critical reflection, rational disclosure, centrality of experience. Pasolini’s Manifesto Tragedies can be used as scenario-based learning exercises adapting to contemporary culture to highlight students’ critical and transformative posture. The experimental method fully responds to the demands of Transformative Learning due to its configuration as an open and permanent laboratory not only for actors (students) and directors (researcher), but also for society as it tends to the “cultivation of communities of practice” in which adults are fully self-employed and emancipated.