"This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression. Featuring a diverse array of voices (many of them as yet unheard in the academic world), the book hosts dialogues on the following questions, among others: - Why and how did Theatre of the Oppressed develop? - What are the differences between the seventies (when Theatre of the Oppressed began) and today? - How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by local and global shifts of the last forty-plus years? - Why has Theatre of the Oppressed spread or "multiplied" across so many geographic, national, and cultural borders? - How has Theatre of the Oppressed been shaped by globalization, "development," and neoliberalism? - What are the stakes, challenges, and possibilities of Theatre of the Oppressed today? - How can Theatre of the Oppressed balance practical analysis of what is with ambitious insistence on what could be? - How can Theatre of the Oppressed hope, but concretely? Broad in scope yet rich in detail, The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed contains practical and critical content relevant to artists, activists, teachers, students, and researchers".
Author(s): Kelly Howe; Julian Boal; José Soeiro
Series: Routledge Theatre And Performance Companions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 436
Tags: Augusto Boal, Brazilian Theater, Political Aspects, Theatrical Producers And Directors
Introduction. Theatre of the Oppressed and its time(s) / Kelly Howe, Julian Boal, and José Soeiro
Part I. Roots. Genealogies. New York and after: Gassner, realism, and the "method" / Frances Babbage
Teatro de Arena, Brazil, Boal: between farces and allegories / Priscila Matsunaga
Augusto Boal and the Nuestra América (our America) theatre / Douglas Estevam
Agitprop and Theatre of the Oppressed / Iná Camargo Costa
Epic theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed: Brecht and, modestly, [Boal] / Jorge Louraço Figueira
Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal: praxis, poetry, and utopia / Paolo Vittoria
Critical Frames. Theatre of the Oppressed as a dialectical game? / José Soeiro and Julian Boal
Constraints and possibilities in the flesh: the body in Theatre of the Oppressed / Kelly Howe
Contradictions of Theatre of the Oppressed / Sergio de Carvalho
Identities, otherness, and emancipation in Theatre of the Oppressed / Julian Boal and José Soeiro
Oppression. Three examples of tangled systems of oppression. Capitalism and environmental destruction / Michael Löwy
Racism, colonialism, imperialism / James McMaster
Patriarchy and Heteronormativity / Kelly Howe
From roots to branches. Games: demechanization and serious fun / An interview with Cora Fairstein, Birgit Fritz, and Roberto Mazzini
Newspaper theatre: the oldest branch of TO in the post-print present / Sabrina Speranza
Image theatre: a liberatory practice for "making thought visible" / Alexander Santiago-Jirau and S. Leigh Thompson
Invisible theatre: from origins to current uses / Rafael Villas Bôas
Forum theatre: a dramaturgy of collective questioning / an interview with Inês Barbosa, Vanesa Camarda, and Paul Dwyer
The rainbow of desire: Boal and doubt / Adrian Jackson --
Legislative theatre: can theatre reinvent politics? / José Soeiro
Aesthetics of the oppressed: self-criticism and re-foundation of Theatre of the Oppressed / Bárbara Santos
Part II. Ground shifts. Changing landscapes in late capitalism
Neoliberalism and the alternative of the common / Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval
Indignant democracy: problems of legitimization in neoliberal capitalism / Juan Carlos Monedero
Art and the wreckage / Marildo Menegat
Critical Reflections on the Early Multiplication of Theatre of the Oppressed
The difficult exile in Argentina, or the "sabbatical year" of Boal / An interview with Cecilia Thumim Boal
Dialectics of Theatre of the Oppressed During Augusto Boal’s Portuguese exile / Paulo Bio Toledo
The beginnings of Theatre of the Oppressed in France / Jean-François Martel
Theatre of the Oppressed, not theatre for the oppressed: Origins of Jana Sanskriti and evolutions of TO in India / An interview with Sanjoy Ganguly
Early conferences in the US: PTO and its roots in the academy / Douglas Paterson
Theatre of the Oppressed in Senegal: TO "proposed that we dare ourselves to dream" / An interview with Mamadou Diol
Part III. Contemporary practice
Theatre of the Oppressed in neoliberal times: From Che Guevara to the Uber driver / Julian Boal
Spaces
Workshops: the modularization of TO pedagogy / An interview with Sruti Bala
Gatherings: between market pressure and "critical generosity" / An interview with Aleksandar Bančić, Ezequiel Basualdo, and Amarílis Felizes
Political organizations: La Dignidad--theatre and oolitics in movement / Escuela de Teatro Político / Schools: Theatre of the Oppressed with youth / Charles N. Adams, Jr.
NGOs (non-governmental organizations): challenges and limitations / Geo Britto
Therapy: Theatre of the Oppressed and/as therapeutic praxis
An interview with Brent Blair, Iwan Brioc, and Mady Schutzman
Community: notion and feeling, goal and strategy / A dialogue with Chen Alon, Sonja Arsham Kuftinec, and Jan Cohen-Cruz
Academia: Theatre of the Oppressed in colleges and universities / An interview with Charles N. Adams, Jr., Dani Snyder-Young, and Alessandro Tolomelli
Practices in Context
Jana Sanskriti: continuous presence, aesthetical rigor, and political and social movement / Sanjoy Ganguly
Féminisme-Enjeux: challenges and paradoxes of a feminist Theatre of the Oppressed company / Gwenaelle Ferré
Peles Negras, Máscaras Negras (Black Skins, Black Masks): Maria 28, racism, and domestic work / chullage and raquel
MSTB (Roofless Movement of Bahia): an experience of theatre and struggle / Fernanda Moscoso de Jesus Sousa, Leila Kissia D’Andreamatteo, Nivaldo Souza Ferreira, and Theo da Rocha Barreto
Forn de teatre Pa'tothom: a space for projects, training, and social struggle / Jordi Forcadas
GTO Montevideo: a theatre within a campaign / Sabrina Speranza
National Egyptian project for Theatre of the Oppressed and the Arab Network of Theatre of the Oppressed / Nora Amin
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC: radical partnerships on the ground in New York City / Katy Rubin
