Augusto Boal

Author : Frances Babbage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429939433

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Augusto Boal by Frances Babbage Pdf

This newly-updated volume looks at the scope of Augusto Boal's career from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his ground-breaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. Offering fascinating reading for anyone interested in the role that theatre can play in stimulating social and personal change, this useful study includes: a biographical and historical overview of Boal's career as theatre practitioner and director an in-depth analysis of Boal's classic text on radical theatre an exploration of training and production techniques practical guidance to Boal's workshop methods This is an essential introduction to the work of a practitioner who has had a tremendous impact on contemporary theatre. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781134498512

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Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal Pdf

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 : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134673711

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Legislative Theatre by Augusto Boal Pdf

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 : Get Political
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social classes in literature
ISBN : 0745328385

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Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal Pdf

''... 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 : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134195053

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The Aesthetics of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal Pdf

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 : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136748806

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The Rainbow of Desire by Augusto Boal Pdf

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised. Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This, his latest work, includes such exercises as: * The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies * The screen image * The image of the future we are afraid of * Image and counter-image ....and many more. Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135127756

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Hamlet and the Baker's Son by Augusto Boal Pdf

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Author : Birgit Fritz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838264233

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InExActArt - The Autopoietic Theatre of Augusto Boal by Birgit Fritz Pdf

This handbook not only provides a very wide-ranging introduction and orientation to the world of the Theatre of the Oppressed, but Birgit Fritz also presents concrete and practical assistance for structuring basic workshops in process-oriented theatre work and in developing Forum Theatre plays. Birgit Fritz explores the working principles of emancipatory theatre work and somatic learning in depth. She gives numerous examples of the work and life of theatre groups and reveals fascinating possibilities of how theatre for social change can be successfully linked with social and political commitment, so that artistic process can bring about cross-generational collaboration, develop social democracy, and operate as an active force for peace.

Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781304351821

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A Playful Path by Bernard De Koven Pdf

A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Author : Kelly Howe,Julian Boal,José Soeiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351967969

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The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed by Kelly Howe,Julian Boal,José Soeiro Pdf

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 : Ali Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350031432

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The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today by Ali Campbell Pdf

How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? This book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic principles Boal's techniques are founded on, tracking exemplary practice from around the globe. Using detailed contemporary case histories, theatre artist, scholar and activist Ali Campbell demonstrates how the underlying principles of Boal's practice are today enacted in the work of - among others - an urban network (Theatre of the Oppressed NYC); a rural and developmental theatre organisation (Jana Sanskriti, West Bengal); Boal's original company CTO Rio (Brazil); and a theatre-based group led by learning-disabled adults in the UK (The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company). The book concludes with a series of conversations between Campbell and international exponents of the work, envisioning futures for the Theatre of the Oppressed in the shifting political, educational and artistic contexts of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz,Mady Schutzman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134884704

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Playing Boal by Jan Cohen-Cruz,Mady Schutzman Pdf

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 : Anne Bogart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134556885

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A Director Prepares by Anne Bogart Pdf

A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it. A Director Prepares offers every practitioner an extraordinary insight into the creative process. It is a handbook, Bible and manifesto, all in one. No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : 0140225838

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Pdf

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415267080

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Games for Actors and Non-actors by Augusto Boal Pdf

This 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.