Theater of the oppressed
By: Augusto Boal ; translated from Spanish by Charles A. and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride and Emily Fryer.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Pluto
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Theater -- Political aspects; Theater and society; Social classes in literature
Work titles: Teatro del oprimido y otras poéticas políticas.
Description: In this remarkable classic work on radical drama, Augusto Boal exposes the machinations that the ruling classes exercised on theatre to take control out of the hands of ordinary citizens. He shows how Brechtian and Marxian drama reverses this trend.
Notes: Includes index.