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   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...

   April 2010 | 978-0-415-57752-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2005 | 978-0-415-32294-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Augusto Boal

   By Frances Babbage

   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...

   2004 | 978-0-415-27326-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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 alike!...

   2002 | 978-0-415-26708-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2001 | 978-0-415-22989-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   1998 | 978-0-415-18241-6 | Paperback (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...

   1994 | 978-0-415-10349-7 | Paperback (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...

   1993 | 978-0-415-08608-0 | Paperback (Routledge)