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Playing Boal : theatre, therapy, activism /

Contributor(s): Schutzman, Mady, 1950- | Cohen-Cruz, Jan, 1950-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: x, 245 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415086078 (hbk); 9780415086073:; 0415086086 (pbk.).Subject(s): Boal, Augusto | Theater -- Political aspects | TheatreDDC classification: 809.29358
Contents:
Boal in Brazil, France, the USA : an interview with Augusto Boal / Michael Taussig and Richard Schechner -- Out of the silence : headlines theatre and power plays / David Diamond -- Re-inventing the wheel : breakout theatre-in-education / Alistair Campbell -- Many happy retirements : an interactive theatre project with older people / Pam Schweitzer -- She made her brother smile : a three-minute forum theatre experience / Augusto Boal -- Augusto Boal and Jacob L. Moreno : theatre and therapy / Daniel Feldhendler -- Mainstream or margin? : US activist performance and theatre of the oppressed / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Boal, Blau, Brecht : the body / Philip Auslander -- The political master swimmer / Augusto Boal -- Brechtian shamanism : the political therapy of Augusto Boal / Mady Schutzman -- The mask of solidarity / Julie Salverson.
Structures of power : toward a theatre of liberation / Lib Spry -- Feminist acts : women, pedagogy, and theatre of the oppressed / Bernice Fisher -- Canadian roundtable : an interview / Mady Schutzman -- Theatricalizing politics : an interview with Augusto Boal / Jan Cohen-Cruz.
Summary: "Playing Boal" examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist. This text is designed to illuminate and invigorate discussion about Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boal in Brazil, France, the USA : an interview with Augusto Boal / Michael Taussig and Richard Schechner -- Out of the silence : headlines theatre and power plays / David Diamond -- Re-inventing the wheel : breakout theatre-in-education / Alistair Campbell -- Many happy retirements : an interactive theatre project with older people / Pam Schweitzer -- She made her brother smile : a three-minute forum theatre experience / Augusto Boal -- Augusto Boal and Jacob L. Moreno : theatre and therapy / Daniel Feldhendler -- Mainstream or margin? : US activist performance and theatre of the oppressed / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Boal, Blau, Brecht : the body / Philip Auslander -- The political master swimmer / Augusto Boal -- Brechtian shamanism : the political therapy of Augusto Boal / Mady Schutzman -- The mask of solidarity / Julie Salverson.

Structures of power : toward a theatre of liberation / Lib Spry -- Feminist acts : women, pedagogy, and theatre of the oppressed / Bernice Fisher -- Canadian roundtable : an interview / Mady Schutzman -- Theatricalizing politics : an interview with Augusto Boal / Jan Cohen-Cruz.

"Playing Boal" examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist. This text is designed to illuminate and invigorate discussion about Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre.

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