Games for Actors and Non-actors

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 301 páginas
This is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal, including new discussions, a new introduction and a collection of images.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

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The Royal Shakespeare Company
1
Sticky paper
10
the fable of XuaXua the prehuman
11
The Greek exercise
14
1
18
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ACTORS WORK
29
THE ARSENAL OF THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED
48
Lifting someone out of a chair
67
Four very simple demonstrations of embryos of Forum Theatre pieces based on projected images
215
REHEARSAL EXERCISES FOR ANY KIND OF PLAY
217
The dark room
219
One line spoken by several actors
220
The oppressors confession
222
Abstract emotion with animals
223
Ritual in which everyone becomes an animal
224
Ideological warmup
225

The Portuguese rhythmic shoes
99
Bolivian mimosas
105
melody
108
Lying on their backs on tables
114
Modelling clay
124
Games of mask and ritual
148
Follow two masters who metamorphose into each other
149
Collective creation of a mask
150
Changing masks
151
The masks of the actors themselves
152
Substitution of mask
153
Changing a whole set of masks into a different social class
154
Making the mask allencompassing
155
Changing actors midritual
156
The game of complementary roles
157
Exchange of roles
158
29
159
The image of the object
160
The object transformed
161
The invention of space and the spatial structures of power
162
Games involving the creation of characters
163
The two revelations of Saint Teresa
169
Image of the group
191
Ritual gesture
193
Ritual
198
Rituals and masks
201
The kinetic image
202
Images of transition the technique in action
203
the cop in the head
206
Dissociation thought speech action
207
the multiple mirror of how others see us
208
Somatisation
211
The three wishes
212
The polyvalent image
213
31
214
The evocation of historic events
226
Stop Think
227
The reconstruction of the crime
228
Analytical rehearsal of emotion
229
Artificial pause
230
Rehearsal of the cue
231
Silence on set Action
232
Slow motion
233
Exaggeration
234
Caricature
235
The rhythm of scenes
236
Keep talking
237
THE EARLY FORMS OF FORUM THEATRE
241
DOUBTS AND CERTAINTIES
253
Do we have to arrive at a solution or not?
259
The function of the actor
265
The repeated scene
266
How to replace a character without transforming it into another
267
What is a good oppression?
268
Who can replace whom?
269
How should a model be rehearsed?
271
Can a forum change themes?
273
Can people remain spectators in a Forum Theatre session?
274
When does a session of Theatre of the Oppressed end?
275
FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH INVISIBLE THEATRE
277
Queen Silvias baby
280
the Greek
282
the black woman
283
Picnic in the streets of Stockholm
285
The audiences children
287
A MEDITATION ON ART AND THE MIRACULOUS
289
Passion and art
293
The mad artist and the artist madman
296
THE PEDAGOGY OF FEAR THEATRE AND THE TWIN TOWERS AN ESSAY AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
298
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Augusto Boal is a theatre director, dramatist, theorist, writer and teacher. He was a Member of Parliament for Rio de Janeiro from 1993-1996. He is the author of Theatre of the Oppressed, Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Rainbow of Desire, Legislative Theatre, and Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics. Adrian Jackson is Artistic Director of Cardboard Citizens. He has translated four books by Augusto Boal, collaborated on a number of occasions and taught Theatre of the Oppressed widely in other countries, including Namibia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Mauritius and Finland.

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