The Rainbow of Desire - The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy

More than a handbook of exercises - a bold and brilliant statement of theatre's therapeutic capacity to liberate people and change lives. Boal shows us how to 'see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalized.

Sommario

Why This Book? My Three Theatrical Encounters; Part 1 The Theory; Chapter 1 Theatre, the First Human Invention; Chapter 2 Human Beings, A Passion and A Platform: the ‘Aesthetic Space’; Chapter 3 The Three Hypotheses of ‘The Cop in the Head’; Chapter 4 Experiences in Two Psychiatric Hospitals; Chapter 5 Preliminaries to the Utilisation of the Rainbow of Desire Techniques; Part 2; The Practice; Chapter 6 The Prospective Techniques; Chapter 7 The Introspective Techniques; Chapter 8 The Extraversion Techniques;

Info autore

Augusto Boal is Vereador (Member of Parliament) of Rio de Janeiro and President of the Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Previous publications include Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Theatre of the Oppressed, both of which have been translated into numerous languages.
Adrian Jackson is Associate Director of the London Bubble Theatre and is also a freelance director and teacher. He was the translator of Games for Actors and Non-Actors into the English language (Routledge 1992).

Riassunto

More than a handbook of exercises – a bold and brilliant statement of theatre's therapeutic capacity to liberate people and change lives. Boal shows us how to 'see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalized.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Augusto Boal, Boal Augusto
• Con la collaborazione di: Adrian Jackson (Traduzione), Jackson Adrian (Traduzione)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780415103497
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10349-7
• Pagine: 216
• Dimensioni: 174 mm x 246 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 480 g
• Serie: Augusto Boal
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Psychiatry, Theatre Studies