| «Come Closer»: Critical Perspectives on Theatre of the Oppressed Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Other), Emert, Toby (Editor), Friedland, Ellie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1433113716 ISBN-13: 9781433113710 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $171.07 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography - Education | Aims & Objectives - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting |
| Dewey: 792.022 |
| LCCN: 2011011358 |
| Series: Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.05 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Come Closer, community activists, scholars, and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes, new audiences, and new settings. Each chapter features a first-person narrative on how the authors' work both honors and transforms the vision of Augusto Boal, whose imaginative response to human oppression offers the world an aesthetic intervention that has the power to move both the oppressors and the oppressed to the possibility of transformative dialogue. Contributors to this important volume center their ideas and their descriptions of their practice within theoretical frameworks, particularly Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Come Closer will be useful to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as administrators and professors interested in the topic of democratic education. |