A classic bestseller by one of the most important theatre practitioners of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This handbook has sold over 90,000 copies to students, teachers and theatre makers, giving them a broad range of theatre exercises to use in classrooms, rehearsals and community projects. Makes social and community theatre fun, engaging and easily accessible for a broad audience. No other book sets out all of Boal's methods in one place, not least in such a clear, practical manner.

A classic bestseller by one of the most important theatre practitioners of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This handbook has sold over 90,000 copies to students, teachers and theatre makers, giving them a broad range of theatre exercises to use in classrooms, rehearsals and community projects. Makes social and community theatre fun, engaging and easily accessible for a broad audience. No other book sets out all of Boal's methods in one place, not least in such a clear, practical manner.

Rainbow of Desire is a handbook of exercises with a difference. It is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and comprehensively updated from the French, Rainbow of Desire sets out the techniques which help us `see' for the first time the oppressions we have internalised. Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician, has been confronting oppression in various forms for over thirty years. His belief that theatre is a means to create the future has inspired hundreds of groups all over the world to use his techniques in a multitude of settings. This, his latest work, includes such exercises as: * The Cops in the Head and their anti-bodies * The screen image * The image of the future we are afraid of * Image and counter-image ....and many more. Rainbow of Desire will make fascinating reading for those already familiar with Boal's work and is also completely accessible to anyone new to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.

Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him a " the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us.

"Legislative Theatre" is the latest and most remarkable stage in the unique Augusto Boal project. It is an attempt to use theatre in a political context to create a truer form of democracy--a method to engage the populace. It is an extraordinary experiment in the potential of theatre to effect social change.
At the heart of Boal's method of Forum Theatre--which is already used in diverse contexts--is the dual meaning of the verb "to act": to perform and take action. In "Legislative Theatre" he takes one stage further his concept of the "spect-actor," the spectator who intervenes in an unresolved scenario on stage to try and break a depicted cycle of oppression. As a politician in his native Rio de Janeiro, Boal used Forum Theatre to involve the local populace in generating relevant legislation and social change.
The book includes a full explanation of the genesis and principles of legislative theatre, and a description of the process in operation in Rio. Also included are Boal's essays, speeches and lectures on Popular Theatre, Paolo Freire, cultural activism, the point of playwrighting, and much else besides.

Augusto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. At last this major director, practitioner, and author of many books on community theatre speaks out about the subjects most important to him a " the practical work he does with diverse communities, the effects of globalization, and the creative possibilities for all of us.

Moms doing curious and sometimes crazy stuff have dominated the news for a few years now. It's like the girls gone wild have grown up and starting having children. Maybe it can be blamed on women taking on more roles of national leadership. Maybe it's because of reality television. Maybe it is because we inherited the feminist movement and don't know what the hell to do with it.

Nothing says Texas like a drive-thru liquor barn. If you've ever driven through one you know it is floor to ceiling liquor. It is like a museum. It's an awe inspiring collection of scotch, beer, whiskey, brown liquor, blue liquor and creamy white liquor, hard stuff, girly stuff and mixed drinks. The bartender came to my car with a tray full of Styrofoam cups. Each had a sliver of clear tape across the straw hole. I thought, Is he kidding? A piece of tape? That slight piece of tape was apparently going to save my ass from jail, should I have gotten pulled over by the police. Adrian Jackson is a freelance columnist in Beeville, Texas. She holds a masters degree from Texas Tech University (Go Red Raiders ) In her spare time, she works at a local college; raises a daughter, a pair of Labs and a cat; and entertains the idea of earning a Ph.D.

You know that feeling when you wake up and you don't know where you are, you don't know what you've done, you're not sure if you might have committed some awful crime, and sometimes it stays with you all morning. A narrative that crosses time and territory to find answers to questions of identity and matters of life and death, Mincemeat unravels the truths and the untruths surrounding a World War Two intelligence operation. First aired in June 2001, Mincemeat features testimony, speculation and outright lies: don't miss the shocking truth behind an event that changed history. Mincemeat is in production at Cordy House, Camden from 15th June 2009. A remarkable piece of theatre: multilayered, passionate and as innovative as anything on offer on the London stage. **** The Guardian

I was murdered once. True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UK's leading homelessness theatre company Cardboard Citizens. A Jamaican boxer known as The Entertainer, a Spanish stag party celebrating with human calligraphy, a woman who said it with flowers, a Pole not called Sam, Russian tourists, a Greek called Pericles. And death.