1st Edition
A Boal Companion Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics
Introduction
Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz
Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of Brazilian Theatre (1954-79)
Campbell Briton
SECTION I: SITES
POLITICAL THEATRE: Staging the Political: Boal and the Horizons of Theatrical Commitment
Randy Martin
PEDAGOGY: Critical Interventions: The Meaning of Praxis
Deborah Muntnick
ACTIVISM: Tactical Carnival: Social Movement, Demonstrations, and Dialogical Performance
L.M. Bogad
THERAPY: Social Healing and Liberatory Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
Mady Schutzman with Brent Blair, Lori S. Katz, Helen Lorenz, and Marc D. Rich
LEGISLATING: Performing Democracy in the Streets: Participatory Budgeting and Legislative Theatre in Brazil
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
SECTION II: TROPES
ART AND EVERYDAY LIFE: Action in Feminist Performance Art
Suzanne Lacy
STORYTELLING: Redefining the Private: From Personal Storytelling to Political Act
Jan Cohen-Cruz
METAXIS: Metaxis: Dancing (in) the In-Between
Warren Linds
AESTHETIC SPACE: Aesthetics Space/Imaginative Geographies
Shari Popen
JOK(ER)ING: Joker Runs Wild
Mady Schutzman
WITNESSING: Witnessing Subjects: A Fool’s Help
Julie Salverson
SECTION III: IDEOLOGIES
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY: Re-envisioning Theatre, Activism, and Citizenship in Neocolonial Contexts
Awam Amkpa
FEMINIST THEORY: Negotiating Feminist Identities and Theatre of the Oppressed
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
RACE THEORY: Unperforming "Race": Strategies for Re-Imagining Identity
Daniel Banks
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Jan Cohen-Cruz wrote Local Acts: Community-based Performance in the US, edited Radical Street Performance, and, with Mady Schutzman, co-edited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism. She is an associate professor at NYU where she teaches in the Drama and the Art and Public Policy Departments.
Mady Schutzman is author of The Real Thing: Performance, hysteria, and advertising, and co-editor, with Jan Cohen-Cruz, of Playing Boal: Theatre, therapy, activism. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts and is an advisory board member of L.A. Center for Theatre of the Oppressed.
Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman hosted Boal at NYU in 1987-88, brought a group of 20 cultural practitioners to Rio de Janeiro for 3 weeks to study with Boal in 1989, and co-edited Playing Boal: Theatre, therapy, activism in 1994.
'[An] engaging collection of essays ... a fine contribution.' – Contemporary Theatre Review
