A Boal Companion (eBook, ePUB)

Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics
Redaktion: Cohen-Cruz, Jan; Schutzman, Mady

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the cultural practices which inform the Theatre of the Oppressed, 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 movement in context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134351299
• Artikelnr.: 47884813

Autorenporträt

Jan Cohen-Cruz wrote Local Acts: Community-based Performance in the US, edited Radical Street Performance, and, with Mady Schutzman, co-edited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism. She is an associate professor at NYU where she teaches in the Drama and the Art and Public Policy Departments. Mady Schutzman is author of The Real Thing: Performance, hysteria, and advertising, and co-editor, with Jan Cohen-Cruz, of Playing Boal: Theatre, therapy, activism. She teaches at California Institute of the Arts and is an advisory board member of L.A. Center for Theatre of the Oppressed. Jan Cohen-Cruz and Mady Schutzman hosted Boal at NYU in 1987-88, brought a group of 20 cultural practitioners to Rio de Janeiro for 3 weeks to study with Boal in 1989, and co-edited Playing Boal: Theatre, therapy, activism in 1994.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of
Brazilian Theatre (1954-79) Section 1: Sites Political Theatre: Staging the
Political: Boal and the Horizons of Theatrical Commitment Pedagogy:
Critical Interventions: The Meaning of Praxis Activism: Tactical Carnival:
Social Movement, Demonstrations, and Dialogical Performance Therapy: Social
Healing and Liberatory Politics: A Roundtable Discussion Legislating:
Performing Democracy in the Streets: Participatory Budgeting and
Legislative Theatre in Brazil Section 2: Tropes Art and Everyday Life:
Action in Feminist Performance Art Storytelling: Redefining the
Private: From Personal Storytelling to Political Act Metaxis: Metaxis:
Dancing (in) the In-Between Aesthetic Space: Aesthetics Space/Imaginative
Geographies Jok(er)ing: Joker Runs Wild Witnessing: Witnessing Subjects: A
Fool's Help Section 3: Ideologies Postcolonial Theory: Re-envisioning
Theatre, Activism, and Citizenship in Neocolonial Contexts Feminist Theory:
Negotiating Feminist Identities and Theatre of the Oppressed RaceTheory:
Unperforming "Race": Strategies for Re-Imagining Identity Notes on
Contributors Index