A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415322942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str.

Jan Cohen-Cruz

Opis

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 them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal s project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible.

The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will:

• expand readers' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses
• provide a variety of lenses through which to practice and critique TO
• make explicit the relationship between TO and other bodies of work.

This collection is ideal for TO practitioners and scholars who want to expand their knowledge, but it also provides unfamiliar readers and new students to the discipline with an excellent study resource."

Recenzje

'[An] engaging collection of essays ... a fine contribution.' – Contemporary Theatre Review

Spis treści

Introduction  Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of Brazilian Theatre (1954-79) Section 1: 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  Section 2: 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 Fool’s Help  Section 3: 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