From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles - Softcover

Ganguly, Sanjoy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367736896 ISBN 13: 9780367736897

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Jana Sanskriti is internationally recognised as the most iconic post-Boalian Theatre of the Oppressed operation in the world today.

This fully illustrated book by the Bengali company's founder and artistic director Sanjoy Ganguly, edited by Ralph Yarrow, collects and explains their programme of workshop exercises, placing them in the context of their social and activist work. A set of interviews with Ganguly complements these practical sequences, drawing in topics such as the role of the joker, the nature of development, participation and agency, aesthetics as transformation, and Theatre of the Oppressed in the context of a market economy.

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About the Author

Sanjoy Ganguly is the founder and Artistic Director of the Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, in West Bengal, India; considered by Boal the chief exponents of his methodology outside his native Brazil. He is the author of Jana Sanskriti: Forum theatre and democracy in India (2010).

Ralph Yarrow is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367736896
• ISBN 13: 9780367736897
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172
• Editor: Yarrow Ralph