Games for Actors and Non-actors

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors and non-actors alike! This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes: * Two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil * Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company * A revised introduction and translator's preface * A collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition * New reflections on Forum Theatre

ISBN 0415267080   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780415267083 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 861 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780415061551 Publication date 22 Aug 2002   Height (mm) 246 Translator Adrian Jackson   Width (mm) 174 Library of Congress PN2061.B49   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 792.028   Academic level Tertiary education, General DEWEY edition DC21

		List of figures
		Translator's introduction to the first edition
		Preface to the second edition: The Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre in prisons and landless peasants		1
		Preface to the first edition: the fable of Xua-Xua, the prehuman woman who discovered theatre		11
		Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe		18
		The Godrano experience: my first Forum Theatre in Europe or the ultimate spect-actor/protagonist!		19
		The Structure of the Actor's Work		29
		The primacy of emotion		29
		Rationalising emotion		35
		A la recherche du temps perdu		37
		The dialectical structure of the actor's interpretation of a role		40
		The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed		48
		Introduction: a new system of exercises and games from Theatre of the Oppressed		48
		Feeling What We Touch (Restructuring Muscular Relations)		50
		Listening to What We Hear		92
		Dynamising Several Senses		114
		Seeing What We Look At		129
		The Memory of the Senses		171
		Image Theatre		174
		Rehearsal Exercises for any Kind of Play		217
		The Early Forms of Forum Theatre		241
		The rules of the game		242
		Dramaturgy		242
		Staging		243
		The performance game		243
		Examples of Forum Theatre		245
		Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incorporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model		253
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"'This is an inspiring and powerful book, a lucid account that will be of substantial use to people already using "Theatre of the Oppressed." It should also act as an excellent introduction for those new to the system.' - "Artscene.""This is a useful handbook for those who want to explore Boal's 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and as such is greatly to be welcomed. Boals' work deserves and demands emulation.' - "Theatre Research International.""'You have achieved what Brecht only dreamt of and wrote about: making a useful theatre that is entertaining, fun, and instructive. It is a different kind of theatre - a kind of social therapy.it focuses the mind, relaxes the spirit, and gives people a new handle on their situations.' - "Richard Schechner.""'Boal's analysis of the art of the actor makes [Games.] compulsory reading' -"Plays and PlayersI."

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