Playing Boal : theatre, therapy, activism / edited by Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz.
Contributor(s): Cohen-Cruz, Jan
| Schutzman, Mady.
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1994Description: x,245p ; 22cm + pbk.ISBN: 0415086078 (m); 9780415086073; 0415086086 (v) (pbk) :; 9780415086080.Subject(s): Boal, Augusto | Theater -- Political aspects | Theatre studies | Performance art | Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama) | Political science & theoryDDC classification: 792.013 SCH 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Playing Boal examines the techniques in application of Augusto Boal, creator of Theatre of the Oppressed, Brazilian theatre maker and political activist.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Notes on Contributors (p. vii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Bibliography (p. 16)
- Boal in Brazil, France, the USA (p. 17)
- Part I Specifying: Case Studies (p. 33)
- Out of the Silence (p. 35)
- Re-Inventing the Wheel (p. 53)
- Many Happy Retirements (p. 64)
- She Made Her Brother Smile (p. 81)
- Part II Crossing: Conjunctions and Collisions (p. 85)
- Augusto Boal and Jacob L.Moreno (p. 87)
- Mainstream or Margin? (p. 110)
- Boal, Blau, Brecht: the Body (p. 124)
- The Political Master Swimmer (p. 134)
- Part III Contesting: Configurations of Power (p. 135)
- Brechtian Shamanism (p. 137)
- Bibliography (p. 155)
- The Mask of Solidarity (p. 157)
- Notes (p. 170)
- Structures of Power (p. 171)
- Feminist Acts (p. 185)
- Canadian Roundtable (p. 198)
- Theatricalizing Politics (p. 227)
- Glossary (p. 236)
- Index (p. 239)