What is the Oppressed Theater a powerful strategy for? An experience of the "Education through Work Program for Health" at the Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and other Drugs

Introduction: In the perspective of training for the construction of practices relevant to a model of care based on psychosocial logic, which is guided by the production of citizenship, autonomy, and social inclusion, we used the intervention proposal within the scope of Education through Work for Health Program (PET Saude/Redes), in a Psychosocial Care Center Alcohol and other Drugs, the techniques of the Teatro do Oprimido [Oppressed Theatre] to promote the protagonism of the participants and make it possible to identify and face their needs and the different oppression situations they experienced. Objective: To present the Oppressed Theater and reflect on its potential in the context of Psychosocial Care. Method: Experience report in which the method of descriptive narration was used to present the process of conducting the workshops, the situations, and interventions that occurred in the workshops and processes of the shows. Results: The proposal resulted in three shows from the Teatro do Oprimido - starting a path against oppression, unveiling oppression, and "if you run, the animal gets you, if you stay, the animal eats you!". Conclusion: The performance with the Teatro do Oprimido in the CAPS-ad was configured as a work of clinical and political character, with performance on the concrete reality of the protagonists of their own staged stories. The potential of this experience in search of citizenship has contributed to provoking reflections and criticisms that may qualify actions in favor of the psychosocial paradigm in the Brazilian Health Unified System (SUS).