Monday, October 28, 2019

Reading List

Books about (or adjacent to) our work with Theatre of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal

Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal

Rainbow of Desire by Augusto Boal

Legislative Theatre by Augusto Boal

Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism by Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz

Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue by David Diamond

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre by Jo Salas
*book on Playback Theatre process and benefits 

Zoomy Zoomy: Improv Games and Exercises for Groups by Hannah Fox

Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Non-Scripted Theatre by Jonathan Fox

Theatre for Community, Conflict, & Dialogue by Michael Rohd

The Viewpoints Book by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau
*exercises for groups of actors, in ensemble

Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
*exercises to connect and cope with grief, fear, courage, and hope 

The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel Von Der Kolk

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown 

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
*contains rituals for individual and group grieving

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
*about generational, inherited racial trauma in the bodies of Black people, White people, and Cops

Ethnoautobiography by Jürgen Werner Kremer & R Jackson-Paton
*workbook with exercises and reflections for White/European ancestry folk on how to reclaim ancestry in an informed way, and cease appropriating cultures and spiritualities of others

The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
*how humans are dealing psychologically with the scale of our current climate catastrophe 

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Reading List

Books about (or adjacent to) our work with Theatre of the Oppressed Pedagogy of the Oppressed  by Paulo Freire Theatre of the Oppress...