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Games for actors and non-actors / Augusto Boal.

By: Boal, Augusto.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxix, 301 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415267617; 0415267080 .Uniform titles: Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs. English Subject(s): Acting | GamesDDC classification: 792.028
Contents:
Theatre of the oppressed in Europe -- The structure of the actor's work -- The arsenal of the theatre of the oppressed -- The early forms of forum theatre -- Forum theatre: doubts and certainties: incorporating a new method of rehearsing and devising a forum theatre model -- First experiences with invisible theatre -- Artistic creation and divine madness: a meditation on art and the miraculous.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 everyonenbsp;- 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 anbsp;revised introduction and translator's preface anbsp;collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition new reflections on Forum Theatre.

Theatre of the oppressed in Europe -- The structure of the actor's work -- The arsenal of the theatre of the oppressed -- The early forms of forum theatre -- Forum theatre: doubts and certainties: incorporating a new method of rehearsing and devising a forum theatre model -- First experiences with invisible theatre -- Artistic creation and divine madness: a meditation on art and the miraculous.

MTU Cork Module ARTS9018 - Supplementary reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS9022 - Recommended reading.

MTU Cork Module EDUC9051 - Supplementary reading.

CIT Module DRAM 7017 - Core reading

CIT Module DRAM 7004 - Core reading

CIT Module DRAM 7016 - Supplementary reading

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: A New System of Exercises and Games From The Theatre of The Oppressed
  • Two Unities
  • Five Categories of Game and Exercise
  • I Feeling What We Touch (Re-structuring Muscular Relations)
  • II Listening to What We Hear
  • III Dynamising Several Senses
  • IV Seeing What We Look At
  • V The Memory of the Senses
  • Image Theatre: Image Techniques: Models and Dynamisations
  • 1 Image of the Word
  • 2 Image of transition
  • 3 Multiple image of oppression
  • 4 Multiple image of happiness
  • 5 Image of the Group
  • 6 Ritual Gesture
  • 7 Ritual
  • 8 Rituals and masks
  • 9 The Image of the Hour
  • 10 The Kinetic Image
  • 11 The Merry-Go-Round of Images
  • Images Of Transition
  • The Technique in action: Examples from Europe
  • New Image Theatre techniques
  • The cop in the head techniques
  • Four Very Simple Demonstrations of Some Embryos of Forum Theatre Pieces
  • Still As Projected Images
  • Rehearsal Exercises for Any Kind of Play
  • Exercises for the preparation of a Forum Theatre Model or for the rehearsal of other kinds of theatre
  • The Early Forms of Forum Theatre: The Rules of the Games
  • Dramaturgy
  • Staging
  • The Performance Games
  • Examples of Forum Theatre
  • First Experiences With Invisible Theatre
  • Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties
  • Artistic Creation and Divine Madness
  • The Pedagogy of Fear
  • Theatre and the Twin Towers

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Augusto Boal is a theatre director, dramatist, theorist, writer and teacher. He was a Member of Parliament for Rio de Janeiro from 1993-1996. He is the author of Theatre of the Oppressed, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Rainbow of Desire, Legislative Theatre, and Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics.
Adrian Jackson is Artistic Director of Cardboard Citizens. He has translated four books by Augusto Boal, collaborated on a number of occasions and taught Theatre of the Oppressed widely in other countries, including Namibia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Mauritius and Finland.