The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today
An Introduction to the Work and Principles of Augusto Boal
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 8 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350445024
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 bw illus 0
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Short description:
This new edition illumines the context and key principles of Boal's work through a set of contemporary international case studies pointing to the living, core ethos of the Theatre of the Oppressed, and envisaging its possible futures with some of its leading exponents.
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How has the work and legacy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed been interpreted and practised around the world? What does it look like in different working contexts? The second edition of this book provides an accessible introduction to the political and artistic principles Boal's techniques are founded on, tracking exemplary practice from around the globe.
Using detailed contemporary case histories, theatre artist, scholar and activist Ali Campbell demonstrates how the underlying principles of Boal's practice are today enacted in the work of - among others - an urban network (Theatre of the Oppressed NYC), a rural and developmental theatre organisation (Jana Sanskriti, West Bengal), Boal's original company CTO Rio (Brazil), and a theatre-based group led by learning-disabled adults in the UK (The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company). The book concludes with a series of conversations between Campbell and international exponents of the work, envisioning futures for the Theatre of the Oppressed in the shifting political, educational and artistic contexts of the 21st century.
This second edition includes:
- A new foreword by Professor Caoimhe McAvinchey
- An additional conversation in Part 3 with artist and activist Tony Cealy
- A new Part 4, featuring creative encounters with groups of academics, artists, Indigenous activists and community multipliers from across the Amazonas region of Brazil
- A new Part 5, featuring the Indigenous academic and Kuringa (Joker) Annie Martins, who vividly addresses the challenges all practitioners face as they seek to decolonise their work
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword to the Second Edition by Professor Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Author's Introduction to the Second Edition
Part One: Principles in Practice
Prologue
Introduction: About Augusto Boal and the Aims of This Book
1. What Is Forum and How Does It Work?
2. Teaching and Training
3. How Do We Adapt Forum?
4. Collaboration
5. Ten Top Tips
Part Two: Companies and Conversations
Introduction: How These Four Studies Were Created and Why
Jana Sanskriti: Field Work
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC): 'Radically Unsentimental'
The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company: 'Nurses Jump In. Teachers Don't'
CTO Rio: 'Given a Recipe, You Can Go and Do'
Part Three: Conversations
Introduction: About the People You Will Hear from in This Section
Angela El-Zeind
Jennifer Little
Barbara Santos
Osmar Araujo
Julian Boal
Mojisola Adebayo in conversation with Ali Campbell
Tony Cealy
Part Four: Frame Throwing in Amazonas
Part Five: Annie's Story
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Index
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