Aesthetics of the Opressed

Legendary Brazilian theatre director Augosto Boal's workshops and theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. Boal's vision of the transformative power of theatre reaches new heights with this latest polemic against globalization and the sedative effects of Hollywood and television.

The Aesthetics of the Oppressed is a book which communicates Boal's inspirational vision -- articulating and expanding upon the practical and theoretical foundations of the international theatre movement begun 30 years earlier with his landmark work The Theatre of the Oppressed..