[PDF] Playing Boal eBook

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134884702

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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 : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415322935

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This Boal companion explores performative and cultural ideas and practices which inform Boal's work by putting them alongside those from related disciplines.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415267083

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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.

Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1304351823

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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 : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1134351305

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This carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal’s work is the first to look ’beyond Boal’ and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context. A Boal Companion looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory – Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology – to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal’s project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible. The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will: expand readers' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses provide a variety of lenses through which to practice and critique TO make explicit the relationship between TO and other bodies of work. This collection is ideal for TO practitioners and scholars who want to expand their knowledge, but it also provides unfamiliar readers and new students to the discipline with an excellent study resource.

Author : Nathan Stucky
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809324668

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Edited by Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer, Teaching Performance Studies is the first organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice, and pedagogy. This collection of eighteen essays by leading scholars and educators reflects the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre and cultural ritual. The cross-disciplinary freedom enacted by the writers suggests a new vision of performance studies--a deliberate commerce between field and classroom.

Author : Frances Babbage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0429939434

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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 : 264 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 113467371X

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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 : 28,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social classes in literature
ISBN : 9780745328386

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''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Author : Frances Babbage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 1996-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135305293

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.