A further stage in the Boal project, this is an attempt to use theatre within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of Boal's method of forum theatre is the dual meaning of the verb to act: to perform, and to take action. This text creates theatrical ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. It includes: a full explanation of the genesis and principles of legislative theatre; a description of the process in operation in Rio; and Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular...

A further stage in the Boal project, this is an attempt to use theatre within a political system to create a truer form of democracy. It is an experiment in the potential of theatre to affect social change. At the heart of Boal's method of forum theatre is the dual meaning of the verb to act: to perform, and to take action. This text creates theatrical ways of involving everyone in the democratic process. It includes: a full explanation of the genesis and principles of legislative theatre; a description of the process in operation in Rio; and Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on popular...

This is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and Theatre of the Oppressed. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression - and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving...

This is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and Theatre of the Oppressed. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression - and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving...

Augusto 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 possibilities for all of us.

Augusto 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 possibilities for all of us.

-Boal and his work are marvelous examples of the post-modern situation-its problems and its opportunities. Twice exiled, Boal is 'at home' now wherever he finds himself to be. He makes a skeptical, comic, inquisitive and finally optimistic theatre involving spectators and performers in the search for community and integrity. This is a good book to be used even more than to be read.- - Richard Schechner
-Augusto Boal's achievement is so remarkable, so original and so groundbreaking that I have no hesitation in describing the book as the most important theoretical work in the theatre in...