Das Theater der Unterdrückten erlebt in Deutschland eine Renaissance, nachdem es jahrelang in sozialpädagogischen Nischen verschwand. Das emanzipatorische Theater der Unterdrückten, das in sich Kunst, Selbsterfahrung und politisches soziales Probehandeln vereinigt, will Menschen durch die Übereignung theatraler Mittel zu Hauptdarstellern ihres eigenen Lebens machen. Der Sammelband bietet den Leser/innen Beispiele der Umsetzung dieser ursprünglich lateinamerikanischen Theatermethode im deutschen und europäischen Kontext. Es zeigt die Vielfalt der Methode und ihre vielseitige...

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised.
Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they could imagine and enact social and political change. Rejecting the Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain unchallenged, he broke down the wall between actors and audience, the two sides coming together, the audience becoming the 'spect-actors'. ...