Games for Actors and Non-Actors

by Augusto Boal

Book Overview

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and best selling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary Method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors and non-actors alike!

This thoroughly updated and substantially revised second edition includes:

two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil Boal's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415267080
• ISBN13: 9780415267083
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

One of the best practical books and socially impoertant in history.

a must have for anyone who is a parent, teaching, working with individuals, groups, or to make family gatehring fun, meaningful and looking forward to more!

Games for Actors and Non-Actors 2nd Edition

This is excellent for my improvisation. Adapted the "ritual gesture" for my course. A must-have - honestly.

Great Quality

The book was in very good condition and shipped quickly. I paid about $20 less than my college's bookstore was charging for it.

A valuable introduction to the Theatre of the Oppressed

This text represents a valuable introduction to the theories and practice of Augusto Boal. GFA, unlike its predecessor the Theatre of the Oppressed, contains practical exercises as well as an introduction to the important theoretical work of Boal. Boal's major innovations (such as Forum Theatre and Image Theatre) are introduced, discussed, and illustrated with examples, thus effectively allowing the reader to enter into the dialogue of using and refining the techniques. I would recommend this to any performer, artist, educator, or theatre worker who is unfamiliar with the work of Boal, and seeks new methods of understanding and transforming practice, and empowering both audience and participants.

Augustus Boal for all ages

Definitely a must-have in all drama classes. Don't recycle the same old exercises which have nothing to do with the world around us - the work of Boal is accessible and important to students of the theater of all ages.