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Playing Boal
Routledge 1993; US$ 42.95The first book to examine the practical techniques of Augusto Boal, Playing Boal illuminates and invigorates discussion about Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre. more...
Legislative Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95Augusto 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.... more...
Theatre and Empowerment
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00Theatre and Empowerment examines the ability of drama, theatre, dance and performance to empower communities of very different kinds. Working from a multi-cultural perspective, the book explores the value of performance as an agent of social change, asking how it can help disempowered communities find their own creative voices. more...
Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 41.95Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him ? the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative... more...
Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama
Intellect 2005; US$ 10.00This new series of cutting edge critical essays and articles in issues concerning Drama and Performance opens with Volume I, which will focus on issues of Interventionist Drama and related examples of Drama as Community. The list of contributors is impressive and quite consciously eclectic, ranging from established scholars such as Dr. Lionel Pilkington... more...
Ghosts
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 67.50Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, Rayner describes time as it is employed... more...
Faithful Performances
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95The contributors to Faithful Performances reflect on the nature of artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of tradition and identity and consider various aspects of the performance of Christian identity by examining at worship, the interpretation of the Bible, Christian response to elements in the contemporary media and the shape of... more...
Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing. more...
Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new politics practiced through performance. Written through the intersection of performance and philosophy, the book refutes neoliberalism's depoliticizing and strategic uses of humanitarianism, human rights, and development. more...
Engaging Performance
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95Engaging 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 Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking... more...









