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Games for Actors and Non-Actors, 2nd Edition
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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!
This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes:
- two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil
- Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company
- a revised introduction and translator's preface
- a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition
- new reflections on Forum Theatre. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
List of figures
Translator’s introduction to the first edition
Translator’s postscript to the second edition
Preface to the second edition: The Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre in prisons and landless peasants
Postscript – with pride in our hearts
Preface to the first edition: the fable of Xua-Xua, the prehuman woman who discovered theatre
Postscript: actors and non-actors
ch. 1 Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe
ch. 2 The Structure of the Actor’s Work
ch. 3 The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed
Feeling What We Touch (Restructuring Muscular Relations)
Listening To What We Hear
Dynamising Several Senses
Seeing What We Look At
The Memory of The Senses
ch. 4 The Early Forms of the Forum Theatre
ch. 5 Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incorporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model
ch. 6 First Experiences With Invisible Theatre
ch. 7 Artistic Creation and Divine Madness: A Meditation on Art and the Miraculous
Postscript: The Pedagogy of Fear - Theatre and the Twin Towers: An Essay After 11 September, 2001
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!
This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes:
- two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil
- Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company
- a revised introduction and translator's preface
- a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition
- new reflections on Forum Theatre. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
List of figures
Translator’s introduction to the first edition
Translator’s postscript to the second edition
Preface to the second edition: The Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre in prisons and landless peasants
Postscript – with pride in our hearts
Preface to the first edition: the fable of Xua-Xua, the prehuman woman who discovered theatre
Postscript: actors and non-actors
ch. 1 Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe
ch. 2 The Structure of the Actor’s Work
ch. 3 The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed
Feeling What We Touch (Restructuring Muscular Relations)
Listening To What We Hear
Dynamising Several Senses
Seeing What We Look At
The Memory of The Senses
ch. 4 The Early Forms of the Forum Theatre
ch. 5 Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incorporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model
ch. 6 First Experiences With Invisible Theatre
ch. 7 Artistic Creation and Divine Madness: A Meditation on Art and the Miraculous
Postscript: The Pedagogy of Fear - Theatre and the Twin Towers: An Essay After 11 September, 2001