Games for actors and non-actores

 Content: Introduction: A New System of Exercises and Games From The Theatre of The Oppressed. Two Unities. Five Categories of Game and Exercise.  I. Feeling What We Touch (Re-structuring Muscular Relations)  II. Listening to What We Hear  III. Dynamising Several Senses  IV. Seeing What We Look At  V. The Memory of the Senses. IMAGE THEATRE: Image Techniques: Models and Dynamisations  1. Image of the Word  2. Image of transition  3. Multiple image of oppression  4. Multiple image of happiness  5. Image of the Group  6. Ritual Gesture  7. Ritual  8. Rituals and masks  9. The Image of the Hour  10. The Kinetic Image  11. The Merry-Go-Round of Images.  IMAGES OF TRANSITION - The Technique in action: Examples from Europe, New Image Theatre techniques, The cop in the head techniques, Four Very Simple Demonstrations of Some Embryos of Forum Theatre Pieces, Still As Projected Images.  Rehearsal Exercises for Any Kind of Play, Exercises for the preparation of a Forum Theatre Model or for the rehearsal of other kinds of theatre, The Early Forms of Forum Theatre: The Rules of the Games, Dramaturgy, Staging, The Performance Games, Examples of Forum Theatre.  First Experiences With Invisible Theatre, Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties, Artistic Creation and Divine Madness, The Pedagogy of Fear - Theatre and the Twin Towers.
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              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.                 Read more...