Boal Books

New and Published Books

1. Jana Sanskriti

   Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

   By Sanjoy Ganguly

   Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its native Brazil. This book is a unique...

   Published April 25th 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. Augusto Boal

   By Frances Babbage

   Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

   The work of Augusto Boal has had a tremendous impact on contemporary theatre. This volume looks at the scope of Boal's career - from his early work as a playwright and director in Sao Paulo in the 1950s, to the development of his groundbreaking manifesto in the 1970s for a 'Theatre of the Oppressed...

   Published October 6th 2004 by Routledge
4. Games for Actors and Non-Actors

   2nd Edition

   By Augusto Boal

   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...

   Published August 21st 2002 by Routledge
5. Hamlet and the Baker's Son

   My Life in Theatre and Politics

   By Augusto Boal

   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...

   Published February 22nd 2001 by Routledge
6. Legislative Theatre

   Using Performance to Make Politics

   By Augusto Boal

   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...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
7. The Rainbow of Desire

   The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy

   By Augusto Boal

   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...

   Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge
8. 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