A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

by Cohen-Cruz, Jan; Schutzman, Mady

• ISBN13: 9780203300794
• ISBN10: 0203300793
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Looking at the cultural practices which inform the Theatre of the Oppressed, 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 movement in context.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of Brazilian Theatre (1954-79)

Sites

Political Theatre: Staging the Political: Boal and the Horizons of Theatrical Commitment

Pedagogy: Critical Interventions: The Meaning of Praxis

Activism: Tactical Carnival: Social Movement, Demonstrations, and Dialogical Performance

Therapy: Social Healing and Liberatory Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

Legislating: Performing Democracy in the Streets: Participatory Budgeting and Legislative Theatre in Brazil

Tropes

Art and Everyday Life: Action in Feminist Performance Art

Storytelling: Redefining the Private: From Personal Storytelling to Political Act

Metaxis: Metaxis: Dancing (in) the In-Between

Aesthetic Space: Aesthetics Space/Imaginative Geographies

Jok(er)ing: Joker Runs Wild

Witnessing: Witnessing Subjects: A FoolÃóâé¼âäós Help

Ideologies

Postcolonial Theory: Re-envisioning Theatre, Activism, and Citizenship in Neocolonial Contexts

Feminist Theory: Negotiating Feminist Identities and Theatre of the Oppressed

RaceTheory: Unperforming "Race": Strategies for Re-Imagining Identity

Notes on Contributors

Index

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