- Paperback: 219 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press; 3rd Revised edition edition (20 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745316573
- ISBN-13: 978-0745316574
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 267,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend.
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11 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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This book is an absolute must for anybody who wishes to enter the theatre business through THEATRE IN EDUCATION or Theatre in the community and allows the actor to see beyond the constraints of a proscenium arch to the wider field of theatre without the theater.
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21 Aug 2011
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Now that Augusto Boal has passed into history as a person, his work remains among the most vibrant and revolutionary in the world. This book -- Theatre of the Oppressed -- is Boal's earliest effort to ground his emerging practice in a critique of classical theory. There are elements of the text, and especially in his critique of Aristotle, that seem perhaps a bit heavy handed. Aristotle just didn't seem that interested in whatever catharsis is, and possibly Boal used the explosive word more for his own purposes that to immolate Aristotle. What Boal came to was a distinct separation between empathy and sympathy: empathy was a result of coercive techniques from the stage that were intended to impale audience members on emotional content that they assimilated from the dramatic characters: Orestes feels horror, I feel Horror. Antigone feels outrage, I feel outrage. Not only would Boal say that we simply and phenomenologically cannot know and feel someone else's precise feelings, but to be worked on so as to drive people to extreme feeling states was a violation of our personhood, something that coercive forces (from tragedy to political hucksters and radio haters to our daily hailstorm of TV commercials) did to control a population. Boal, much like Brecht, much more preferred sympathy -- we have sym/sim-ilar emotions perhaps, but we also have other emotions, and the freedom to not feel strongly but rather to step back and reflect. I wanted to develop this thought so as to sketch out the kind of wonderful questions and debates Boal launched with Theatre of the Oppressed. It is from start to finish a provocative and indeed an essential read for people in theatre, TV, communication, political science, history, philosophy, . . . .
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18 Mar 2011
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i bought this for a project paper i'm writing and it gave me an insight into my subject.it was great and helpful.
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