Hamlet and the baker's son
Subtitle: my life in theatre and politics
By: Augusto Boal ; translated by Adrian Jackson and Candida Blaker.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Boal, Augusto; Theatrical producers and directors -- Brazil -- Biography; Dramatists, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre.

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors and Legislative Theatre. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times - the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal's story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.