Augusto Boal

Legislative Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Using Performance to Make Politics
Übersetzer: Jackson, Adrian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Legislative Theatre" is the latest and most remarkable stage in the unique Augusto Boal project. It is an attempt to use theatre in a political context to create a truer form of democracy--a method to engage the populace. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to effect social change.
At the heart of Boal's method of Forum Theatre--which is already used in diverse contexts--is the dual meaning of the verb "to act": to perform and take action. In "Legislative Theatre" he takes one stage further his concept of the "spect-actor," the spectator who intervenes in an unresolved scenario on stage to try and break a depicted cycle of oppression. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to involve the local populace in generating relevant legislation and social change.
The book includes a full explanation of the genesis and principles of legislative theatre, and a description of the process in operation in Rio. Also included are Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on Popular Theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134673711
• Artikelnr.: 38243062

Autorenporträt

Augusto Boal is a theatre director, dramatist, theorist, writer and teacher. He is the founder of the international movement 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and was Vereador (Member of the Legislative Chamber) for Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1996. He is the author of Theatre of the Oppressed, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, and Rainbow of Desire. He lives in Rio de Janeiro. Adrian Jackson is Associate Director of the London Bubble Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Cardboard Citizens, and a freelance director and teacher.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Legislative Theatre Book
Prologue: Monologue and dialogue
Chapter 1 History
Chapter 2 The proposition
Chapter 3 The context
Chapter 4 The structure
Chapter 5 A compact course on playwriting and theatre arts
Chapter 6 The show and the community
Chapter 7 Laws promulgated during the mandate
Appendices
Part 2 The 'No-one Here is an Ass!' Book
Prologue 'No-one here is an ass!'
Chapter 8 1 Paulo Freire, my last father
Chapter 9 2 Clementina's turn
Chapter 10 3 Saudades for the chicken thieves of yesteryear
Chapter 11 4 Elizete
Chapter 12 5 The Devil as muse of inspiration
Chapter 13 6 Resignation
Chapter 14 7 Memory and the torture chamber
Chapter 15 8 One hideous crime hides the hideousness of another
Chapter 16 9 The Devil and the canny man
Chapter 17 10 'Human rights' are human
Chapter 18 11 Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 19 12 The suicide of the wind
Chapter 20 13 The laws of the market, the law of the lion
Chapter 21 14 The show of the dream and the dream as show
Chapter 22 15 Family
Part 3 Categories of Popular Theatre
Prologue
Chapter 23 1 The first category of popular theatre By the people and for the people
Chapter 24 2 The second category of popular theatre
Chapter 25 3 The third category of popular theatre
Chapter 26 4 The fourth category of popular theatre
Afterword: The Metamorphoses of the Devil
The individual and the twenty-first century