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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Games for Actors and Non-Actors, 2nd Edition

The Wabash Center

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Author
Boal, Augusto
Publisher
Routledge, New York, NY
ISBN
9780415267083
Table of Contents
List of figures
Translator’s introduction to the first edition
Translator’s postscript to the second edition
Preface to the second edition: The Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre in prisons and landless peasants
Postscript – with pride in our hearts
Preface to the first edition: the fable of Xua-Xua, the prehuman woman who discovered theatre
Postscript: actors and non-actors

ch. 1 Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe

ch. 2 The Structure of the Actor’s Work

ch. 3 The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed
Feeling What We Touch (Restructuring Muscular Relations)
Listening To What We Hear
Dynamising Several Senses
Seeing What We Look At
The Memory of The Senses

ch. 4 The Early Forms of the Forum Theatre

ch. 5 Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incorporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model

ch. 6 First Experiences With Invisible Theatre

ch. 7 Artistic Creation and Divine Madness: A Meditation on Art and the Miraculous

Postscript: The Pedagogy of Fear - Theatre and the Twin Towers: An Essay After 11 September, 2001
Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike!

This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes:
- two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil
- Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company
- a revised introduction and translator's preface
- a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, commissioned for this edition
- new reflections on Forum Theatre. (From the Publisher)