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Lädt ... Theatre of the Oppressed (Original 1974; 1993. Auflage)von Augusto Boal (Autor), Charles A. McBride (Übersetzer)
Werk-InformationenTheater der Unterdrückten von Augusto Boal (1974)
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() 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 as a popular form of communication and expression. He demonstrates the ways in which theatre has come to reflect ruling-class control, drawing on the theories of Aristotle and Machiavelli. He then shows the process reversed in Brechtian/Marxist poetics to the revolutionary potential of transforming the spectator into the actor. Throughout, Boal draws on his own experience in Latin America and illustrates his theory with practical examples. The playwright and essayist Augusto Boal was the director of the Arena Theatre of São Paulo in the 1960th. This, his most influential work, was translated into many languages. It grew out of the practical theatre experience of staging and performing – some sections were written as introduction for plays - and out of the living experience of economic and political oppression. A.B. analyses the history of theatre in relation to the dominant economic classes (Aristotle and the Athenian ‘democracy’, Machiavelli and the emerging bourgeoisie, Hegel and Brecht). To Boal – and I agree – all human activity is political, even the refusal to be so, hence theatre is necessarily political. A.B. reveals how the theatre has been used as an instrument of social and political control but how it can also be turned against the oppressor and become a force for liberation in the hands of the oppressed. Brecht has tried to do this: his plays reveal the world as subject to change. Boal goes further: ‘the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself!’ (155) In the latter part of the work Boal describes the experiences gained with the Arena Theatre, the People’s Theatre in Peru and in numerous workshops; he elaborates the theory and practice of transforming the spectator into actor: Theatre as language, Theatre as discourse (Newspaper theatre, Invisible theatre, …) etc. This may be the most important theoretical writing on theatre since Brecht. Much information on the Theatre of the Oppressed is available on the Internet, also videos of workshops and interviews with Boal who died in 2009. (VI-10) Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Augusto Boal: "Theater der Unterdrückten". Übungen und Spiele für Schauspieler und Nicht-Schauspieler. Herausgegeben und aus dem Brasilianischen übersetzt von Marina Spinu und Henry Thorau. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989. (es 1361) 274 S., br., 16,- DM Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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