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Part of Plutos 21st birthday series Get Political which brings essentialpolitical writing in a range of fields to a new audience. One of the mostrevered figures in world theatre ... the liberation theologian of theatre. TheGuardian Should be read by everyone in the world of theatre who has anypretensions at all to political commitment. John Arden So remarkable sooriginal and so groundbreaking that I have no hesitation in describing thebook as the most important theoretical work on the theatre in modern times.George Wellwarth This new edition of Theatre of the Oppressed brings a classicwork on radical drama fully up to date and includes a new foreword by theauthor Augusto Boal. Boal restores theatre to its proper place as a popularform of communication and expression. He demonstrates the ways in which theatrehas come to reflect rulingclass control drawing on the theories of Aristotleand Machiavelli. He then shows the process reversed in BrechtianMarxistpoetics to the revolutionary potential of transforming the spectator into theactor. Throughout Boal draws on his own experience in Latin America andillustrates his theory with practical examples. «
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