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1. Engaging Performance

   Theatre as call and response

   By Jan Cohen-Cruz

   Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author Jan...

   Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge
2. A Boal Companion

   Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

   Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman

   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...

   Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge
3. Radical Street Performance

   An International Anthology

   Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz

   Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. More than thirty essays explore the myriad forms this most public of...

   Published May 27th 1998 by Routledge
4. Playing Boal

   Edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman

   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...

   Published December 1st 1993 by Routledge