(H/B) THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED

Παρουσίαση

This new edition of Theatre of the Oppressed brings a classic work on radical drama fully up to date and includes a new foreword by the author Augusto Boal. Boal restores theatre to its proper place as a popular form of communication and expression. He demonstrates the ways in which theatre has come to reflect ruling-class control, drawing on the theories of Aristotle and Machiavelli.
He then shows the process reversed in Brechtian/Marxist poetics to the revolutionary potential of transforming the spectator into the actor. Throughout, Boal draws on his own experience in Latin America and illustrates his theory with practical examples..( From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface to 2008 edition
Preface to 2000 edition
Preface to 1974 edition
1. Aristotle’s Coercive System of Tragedy
2. Machiavelli and the Poetics of Virtu
3. Hegel and Brecht: The Character as Subject or the Character as Object?
4. Poetics of the Oppressed
5. Development of the Arena Theater of Sao Paulo
Appendices
Index