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.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2006

ISBN

9781134351299

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Drama

Index

Literature

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
A Boal Companion
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Politics and performance(s) of identity
Section 1 Sites
POLITICAL THEATRE Staging the political
PEDAGOGY Critical interventions
ACTIVISM Tactical carnival
THERAPY Social healing and liberatory politics
LEGISLATION Performing democracy in the streets
Section 2 Tropes
ART AND EVERYDAY LIFEActivism in feminist performance art
STOTYTELLING Redefining the private
METAXIS Metaxis
AESTHETIC SPACE Aesthetic spaces/imaginative geographies
JOK(ER)ING Joker runs wild
WITNESSING Witnessing subjects A fool’s help
section 3 Ideologies
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Reenvisioning theatre, activism, and citizenship in neocolonial contexts
FEMINIST THEORY Negotiating feminist identities and Theatre of the Oppressed
RACE THEORY Unperforming “race”
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