Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal

Theatre Communications Group, 1985 - Performing Arts - 197 pages

The innovative Brazilian playwright, director and international lecturer explicates Aristotle's poetics and the philosophies of Machiavelli, Hegel and Brecht to determine the extent to which their chief components--imitation, catharsis and, ultimately, audience control--serve up to support the status quo of a society rather than facilitate change.

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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 ...

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Boal is a Brazilian dramaturg, theorist, writer, teacher, and politician.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Theatre of the Oppressed
• Author: Augusto Boal
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 1985
• ISBN: 0930452496, 9780930452490
• Length: 197 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism