Politics and performance(s) of identity : 25 years of Brazilian theatre (1954-79) / Campbell Britton -- Staging the political : Boal and the horizons of theatrical commitment / Randy Martin -- Critical interventions : the meaning of praxis / Deborah Mutnick -- Tactical carnival : social movements, demonstrations, and dialogical performance / L.M. Bogad -- Social healing and liberatory politics : a round-table discussion / Mady Schutzman with Brent Blair [and others] -- Performing democracy in the streets : participatory budgeting and legislative theatre in Brazil / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Activism in feminist performance art / Suzanne Lacy -- Redefining the private : from personal storytelling to political act / Jan Cohen-Cruz -- Metaxis : dancing (in) the in-between / Warren Linds -- Aesthetic spaces/imaginative geographies / Shari Popen -- Joker runs wild / Mady Schutzman -- WItnessing subjects : a fool's help / Julie Salverson -- Reenvisioning theatre, activism, and citizenship in neocolonial contexts / Awam Amkpa -- Negotiating feminist identities and theatre of the oppressed / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong -- Unperforming "race" : strategies for reimagining identity / Daniel Banks.
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This 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. A Boal Companion 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. The ideas generated throughout A Boal Companion will: expand readers' understanding of TO as a complex, interdisciplinary, multivocal body of philosophical discourses; provide a variety of lenses through which to practice and critique TO; make explicit the relationship between TO and other bodies of work. This collection is ideal for TO practitioners and scholars who want to expand their knowledge, but it also provides unfamiliar readers and new students to the discipline with an excellent study resource. --! From publisher's description.