Author : Javed Malick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472105878
Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights
Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Get Political
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social classes in literature
ISBN : 9780745328386
''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton
Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134195052
Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him – the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us.
Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 113467371X
Augusto Boal's reputation is now moving beyond the realms of theatre and drama therapy, bringing him to the attention of a wider public. Legislative Theatre is the latest and most remarkable stage in his work. 'Legislative Theatre' is an attempt to use Boal's method of 'Forum Theatre' within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of his method of Forum Theatre is the dual meaning of the verb 'to act': to perform and to take action. Forum Theatre invites members of the audience to take the stage and decide the outcome, becoming an integral part of the performance. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to motivate the local populace in generating relevant legislation. In Legislative Theatre Boal creates new, theatrical, and truly revolutionary ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. This book includes: * a full explanation of the genesis and principles of Legislative Theatre * a description of the process in operation in Rio * Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.
Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1134498519
Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike! This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes: two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company a revised introduction and translator's preface a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition new reflections on Forum Theatre.
Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745316574
a So remarkable and so ground-breaking ... [it is] the most important [book] on the theatre in modern times.a George Wellwarth"
Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134884702
Playing Boal examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist. This text looks at the use of the Theatre of the Oppressed exercises by a variety of practitioners and scholars working in Europe, North America and Canada. It explores the possibilities of these tools for "active learning and personal empowerment; co-operative education and healing; participatory theatre and community action." This collection is designed to illuminate and invigorate discussion about Augusto Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre. It includes two interviews with Boal, and two pieces of his own writing.
Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780140225839
Author : Kelly Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1351967967
This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression. Featuring a diverse array of voices (many of them as yet unheard in the academic world), the book hosts dialogues on the following questions, among others: Why and how did Theatre of the Oppressed develop? What are the differences between the 1970s (when Theatre of the Oppressed began) and today? How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by local and global shifts of the last 40-plus years? Why has Theatre of the Oppressed spread or "multiplied" across so many geographic, national, and cultural borders? How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by globalization, "development," and neoliberalism? What are the stakes, challenges, and possibilities of Theatre of the Oppressed today? How can Theatre of the Oppressed balance practical analysis of what is with ambitious insistence on what could be? How can Theatre of the Oppressed hope, but concretely? Broad in scope yet rich in detail, The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed contains practical and critical content relevant to artists, activists, teachers, students, and researchers.
Author : Sanjoy Ganguly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1136978631
Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique first-hand account - by the group's artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly - of Jana Sanskriti's growth and development since its founding in 1985, which has resulted in a national Forum Theatre network throughout India. Ganguly describes the plays, people and places that have formed this unique operation and discusses its contribution to the wider themes espoused by Forum Theatre. Ganguly charts and reflects on the practice of theatre as politics, developing an intriguing and persuasive case for Forum Theatre and its role in provoking responsible action. His combination of anecdotal insight and lucid discussion of Boal’s practice offers a vision of far-reaching transformation in politics and civil society.
