{"product_id":"a-boal-companion-9780415322935","title":"A Boal Companion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis carefully constructed and thorough collection of theoretical engagements with Augusto Boal's work is the first to look 'beyond Boal' and critically assesses the Theatre of the Opressed (TO) movement in context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Boal Companion\u003c\/em\u003e looks at the cultural practices which inform TO and explore them within a larger frame of cultural politics and performance theory. The contributors put TO into dialogue with complexity theory  Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, race theory, feminist performance art, Deleuze and Guattari, and liberation psychology  to name just a few, and in doing so, the kinship between Boal's project and multiple fields of social psychology, ethics, biology, comedy, trauma studies and political science is made visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ideas generated throughout \u003cem\u003eA Boal Companion\u003c\/em\u003e will:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexpand readers'' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprovide a varie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'[An] engaging collection of essays ... a fine contribution.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e – Contemporary Theatre Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Politics and Performance(s) of Identity: Twenty-five Years of Brazilian Theatre (1954-79) \u003cstrong\u003eSection 1: Sites \u003c\/strong\u003ePolitical 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 \u003cstrong\u003eSection 2: Tropes\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cstrong\u003eSection 3: Ideologies \u003c\/strong\u003ePostcolonial 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090686013783,"sku":"9780415322935","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415322935.jpg?v=1762273084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-boal-companion-9780415322935","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}