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Author / Creator:	Boal, Augusto.
Uniform title:	Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs. English
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Description:	xxxi, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Acting. Games. Acting. Games. Games.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3398833

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ISBN:	0415061555 0415061547
Notes:	Translation of: Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
Translator's introduction to the first edition
Translator's postscript to the second edition
Preface to the second edition: The Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre in prisons and landless peasants
Postscript--with pride in our hearts
Preface to the first edition: the fable of Xua-Xua, the prehuman woman who discovered theatre
Postscript: actors and non-actors
1. Theatre of the Oppressed in Europe
Introduction
The Godrano experience: my first Forum Theatre in Europe or the ultimate spect-actor/protagonist!
Feminism in Godrano
The police again
The oppressed and the oppressors
2. The Structure of the Actor's Work
The primacy of emotion
Muscular exercises
Sensory exercises
Memory exercises
Imagination exercises
Emotion exercises
Rationalising emotion
A la recherche du temps perdu
The dialectical structure of the actor's interpretation of a role
The will
The counter-will
The dominant will
Quantitative variation and qualitative variation
3. The Arsenal of Theatre of the Oppressed
Introduction: a new system of exercises and games from Theatre of the Oppressed
Two unities
Five categories of game and exercise
I. Feeling What we Touch (Restructuring Muscular Relations)
Series 1. General exercises
1. The cross and the circle
2. Colombian hypnosis
3. Minimum surface contact
4. Pushing against each other
5. Joe Egg (aka trust circle)
6. The circle of knots
7. The actor as 'subject': the Greek exercise
8. The actor as 'object'
9. Lifting someone out of a chair
10. Equilibrium of the body with an object
11. A balloon as an extension of the body
12. Racing on chairs
13. Rhythm with chairs
14. Musical chairs
15. Movement with over-premeditation
16. Difficulties
17. Divide up the movement
18. Dissociate coordinated movements
Series 2. Walks
1. Slow motion
2. At a right angle
3. Crab
4. Crossed legs (aka three-legged race)
5. Monkey
6. All fours
7. Camel walk
8. Elephant walk
9. Kangaroo walk
10. Leaning-against-each-other walk
11. Strapped-feet walk
12. Wheelbarrow
13. As you like it
14. Imitating others
Series 3. Massages
1. In a circle
2. The movement comes back
3. Sea waves
4. The rolling carpet
5. Back massage
6. The demon
Series 4. Integration games
1. Person to person, Quebec-style
2. The bear of Poitiers
3. The chair
4. Leapfrog
5. The Brueghel game
6. Stick in the mud
7. Grandmother's footsteps
8. Millipede
9. Apple dance
10. Sticky paper
11. The wooden sword of Paris
12. American football (aka British bulldog)
13. Three Irish duels
14. Little packets
15. Cat and mouse
16. Homage to Tex Avery--cat and dog(s)
17. The handkerchief game (aka the hat game, aka dog and bone)
18. Good day
19. Cadavre exquis (aka consequences)
20. The parachute
21. Balance with an object
Series 5. Gravity
1. Horizontality sequence
2. Verticality sequence
3. Sequence of rectilinear and circular movements
II. Listening to What We Hear
Series 1. Rhythm
1. A round of rhythm and movement
2. Game of rhythm and movement
3. Changing rhythms
4. The machine of rhythms
5. The Peruvian ball game
6. The clapping series
7. West Side Story
8. The Portuguese rhythmic shoes
9. The two brooms
10. The four brooms
11. Horseshoe rhythms
12. Circular rhythms
13. The big chief
14. The orchestra and the conductor
15. Rhythm dialogue in teams
16. Chain rhythm dialogue
17. Pretend Brazilian 'Indians'
18. Lines of five
19. The president's bodyguards
20. Walk, stop, justify
21. Carnival in Rio
22. Bolivian mimosas
23. How many 'A's in a single 'A'?
24. Two by three by Bradford
25. Crossing the room
26. Circle of names of Belo Horizonte
27. Circle of rhythms of Toronto
Series 2. Melody
1. Orchestra
2. Music and dance
Series 3. Sounds and noises
1. Sound and movement
2. Ritual sound
Series 4. The rhythm of respiration
1. Lying on your back completely relaxed
2. Leaning against a wall
3. Standing up straight
4. Breathe in slowly
5. Explosion
6. Breathe in slowly while lifting the arms
7. The pressure cooker
8. Breathe in as quickly as possible
9. Breathe in as slowly as possible
10. Breathe in deeply through the mouth
11. Breathe in with clear definition and lots of energy
12. Two groups
13. Breathe out, standing in a circle
14. One actor pretends to pull the stopper out of another's body
15. A, E, I, O, U
16. All the actors, standing facing the wall
17. Two groups of actors, facing each other
18. With their bodies in maximum possible contact with the floor
19. Lying on their backs on tables
Series 5. Internal rhythms
1. Rhythmic images
III. Dynamising Several Senses
The blind series
1. The point of focus, the embrace and the handshake
2. Noises
3. The imaginary journey
4. The glass cobra
5. One blind line, one sighted line
6. The magnet--positive and negative
7. Swedish multiple sculpture
8. The vampire of Strasbourg
9. The blind car
10. What is the object?
11. The smell of hands
12. The figure-of-eight chicane
13. Goalkeeper
14. Friend and enemy
15. Draw your own body
16. Modelling clay
17. Touch the colour
18. The blind person and the bomb
19. Find the hand
20. The siren's song
21. Find a convenient back
22. The melodic hand
23. The sound of the seven doorways
24. Recognising the `Aaah!'
The space series
1. Without leaving a single space in the room empty
2. Instead of simply saying 'Stop', the Joker says a number
3. The Joker says a number and a geometric figure
4. The Joker says a number and a part of the body
5. The Joker calls out a colour and an item of clothing
6. The participants run slowly
7. The participants touch each other
IV. Seeing What We Look at
The mirrors sequence
1. The plain mirror
2. Subject and image swap roles
3. Subject-image, image-subject
4. Everyone joins hands
5. The two lines form a curve
6. Symmetrical groups
7. The mirror breaks
8. Changing partners
9. The distorting mirror
10. The narcissistic mirror
11. The rhythmic mirror
12. Unification
The modelling sequence
1. The sculptor touches the model
2. The sculptor doesn't touch the model
3. The sculptors spread out around the room
4. The sculptors fashion a single sculpture together
5. Sculpture with four or five people
The puppet sequence
1. String puppet
2. String puppet with rod
Image games
1. Complete the image
2. Ball games
3. Boxing match
4. One person we fear, one person is our protector
5. Furnish the empty space
6. Atmosphere of snow
7. Building character relations
8. Characters in movement
9. Observation
10. Complementary activities
11. What has changed?
12. Tell your own story
13. The antiquated telephone exchange
14. Concentration
15. Animals
16. Professions
17. The balancing circle
18. The 'Indian' in the city, the city dweller in the forest
Games of mask and ritual
1. Follow the master
2. Follow two masters--who metamorphose into each other
3. Rotation of masks
4. Unification of masks
5. Collective creation of a mask
6. Addition of masks
7. Pushing the mask to its extremity and nullifying it
8. Following the master in his own mask
9. Changing masks
10. Mask exchange
11. The masks of the actors themselves
12. Substitution of mask
13. Separation of mask, ritual and motivation
14. Changing a whole set of masks into a different social class
15. Making the mask all-encompassing
16. Changing actors mid-ritual
17. A round of masks in different circumstances
18. Natural and ridiculous
19. Several actors on stage
20. The game of complementary roles
21. The politicians game
22. Exchange of masks
23. Exchange of roles
24. Fainting at Frejus
25. The designated leader
26. The clown of Amsterdam
27. The animals of Vienna
28. Looking first at one another and then at the same spot
29. Cookies
The image of the object
1. The found object
2. The object transformed
3. The object created out of simple things
4. Homage to Magritte--'This bottle is not a bottle'
The invention of space and the spatial structures of power
1. Space and territory
2. Inventing the space in a room
3. The great game of power
4. Chairs in the empty space
5. Where is my place?
6. Six chairs
7. Photographing the image
Games involving the creation of characters
1. Murder at the Hotel Agato
2. Cops and robbers
3. The embassy ball
4. The child's dream--what I wanted to be when I grew up
5. The child's fear
6. What grown-ups wanted me to be
7. The opposite of myself
8. The two revelations of Saint Teresa
9. The fighting cocks
10. Catchphrases
11. What am I? What do I want?
12. The blank character
V. The Memory of the Senses
Reconnecting memory, emotion and imagination
1. Memory: remembering yesterday
2. Memory and emotion: remembering a day in the past
3. Memory and emotion and imagination
4. Remembering an actual oppression
5. Rehearsal on the stage of the imagination
6. Extrapolation
Image Theatre
Image techniques: models and dynamisations
1(a). Image of the word: illustrating a subject with your body
1(b). Image of the word: illustrating a subject using other people's bodies
2. Image of transition
3. Multiple image of oppression
4. Multiple image of happiness
5. Image of the group
6. Ritual gesture
7. Ritual
8. Rituals and masks
9. The image of the hour
10. The kinetic image
11. The merry-go-round of images
Images of transition--the technique in action
Examples from Europe
New Image Theatre techniques: the cop in the head
1. Dissociation--thought, speech, action
2. The analytical image: the multiple mirror of how others see us
3. Somatisation
4. The circuit of rituals
5. The three wishes
6. The polyvalent image
7. The screen image
8. The image of the image
Four very simple demonstrations of embryos of Forum Theatre pieces, based on projected images
Rehearsal Exercises for any Kind of Play
Exercises with or without script
1. Improvisation
2. The dark room
3. One story told by several people
4. Change the story
5. One line spoken by several actors
Games of emotional dynamisation
1. Breaking the oppression
2. The oppressor's confession
Emotional warm-up exercises
1. Abstract emotion
2. Abstract emotion with animals
3. Abstract emotion, following the master
4. Animals or vegetables in emotional situations!
5. Ritual in which everyone becomes an animal
6. Stimulation of the dormant parts of ourselves
Ideological warm-up
1. Dedication
2. Reading newspapers
3. The evocation of historic events
4. Lessons
Exercises for the preparation of a Forum Theatre model or for the rehearsal of other kinds of theatre
1. Play to the deaf
2. Stop! Think!
3. Interrogation
4. The reconstruction of the crime
5. Analytical rehearsal of motivation
6. Analytical rehearsal of emotion
7. Analytical rehearsal of style
8. Opposite circumstances
9. Artificial pause
10. Self-interrogation
11. Opposite thought
12. Rehearsal of the cue
13. Two touches
14. Silence on set--Action!
15. Invisible characters
16. Before and after
17. Transference of emotion
18. Slow motion
19. Sensory focus
20. Low volume
21. Exaggeration
22. Free-style rehearsal
23. Reconnaissance
24. Caricature
25. Swapping characters
26. Need versus will
27. The rhythm of scenes
28. Rashomon
29. Keep talking
30. The ceremony
31. Secret whispers
32. I don't believe you
33. Long Beach telegram
34. Holy theatre
35. Analogy
36. The tick-tock sequence
4. The Early Forms of Forum Theatre
Introduction
The rules of the game
Dramaturgy
Staging
The performance game
Examples of Forum Theatre
1. Agrarian reform seen from a public bench
2. The people judge a secret policeman
3. Leader at work, slave in the home
4. The return to work at the Credit Lyonnais
5. The nuclear power station
5. Forum Theatre: Doubts and Certainties: Incorporating a New Method of Rehearsing and Devising a Forum Theatre Model
Twenty fundamental topics
1. Oppression or aggression?
2. The style of the model
3. Do the problems have to be urgent or not? Should they be simple or complex?
4. Do we have to arrive at a solution or not?
5. Does the model of the future action need to be depicted or not?
6. Model or anti-model? Error or doubt?
7. The conduct of the Joker
8. Theatricality or reflection?
9. The staging
10. The function of the warm-up
11. The function of the actor
12. The repeated scene
13. Macrocosm and microcosm
14. How to replace a character without transforming it into another
15. What is a 'good' oppression?
16. Who can replace whom?
17. How should a 'model' be rehearsed?
18. Can a forum change themes?
19. Can people remain 'spectators' in a Forum Theatre session?
20. When does a session of Theatre of the Oppressed end?
6. First Experiences with Invisible Theatre
Examples of Invisible Theatre
1. Sexual harassment
2. Queen Silvia's baby
3. Racism I: the Greek
4. Racism II: the black woman
5. Picnic in the streets of Stockholm
6. The audience's children
7. Artistic Creation and Divine Madness: a Meditation on Art and the Miraculous
Passion and art
The mad artist and the artist madman
Postscript: the Pedagogy of Fear--Theatre and the Twin Towers: an Essay After 11 September, 2001

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