TY - BOOK ID - 1954428 TI - Playing Boal: theatre, therapy, activism AU - Schutzman, Mady AU - Cohen-Cruz, Jan PY - 1994 SN - 0415086086 0415086078 9780415086073 9780415086080 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Boal, Augusto KW - Theater KW - Political aspects KW - Political aspects. KW - Theater - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1954428 AB - Playing Boal is an unprecedented examination of the techniques of Augusto Boal, creator of the Theatre of the Oppressed and internationally renowned Brazilian theatre maker and political activist. This book examines the use of Theatre of the Oppressed exercises by a variety of practitioners and scholars working in Europe, North America and Canada. It explores the possibilities of these tools for active learning and personal empowerment, cooperative education and healing, participatory theatre and community action. Including two interviews with Boal, two pieces of Boal's own writing, Playing Boal is the most comprehensive and in-depth volume on his work to date. ER -