From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-22332-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ganguly, Sanjoy

Yarrow, Ralph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Eugène van Erven

Preface Ralph Yarrow

PART 1: Workshops Sanjoy Ganguly

Developing Boal’s Games into Social Metaphors

Index of Exercises

Introductory Exercises

- While Walking

- Feel the Protagonist

- Express Emotion

- Variation, Finding Oppression

- Indian Parliament

- Fish Society

- Game of Power

- Expression with Body

1

- Joint Sculpture

- Circles of Emotion

- Sculpting in Pairs, plus Variation

2

- Human Knot, plus Variation

- Variations of Grandma’s Footsteps

- The Deer and the Tiger

- Crossing the Border

- Spontaneous Group Sculptures

- Development of Status Game

3

- Forum in a circle

- Variation on Columbian Hypnosis, plus further Variation

- Blind Game

- Storytelling

4

- Catch in the Circle

- Newspaper Theatre

- Points of Contact

- Invisible Friend

- Soundscape and Images

- Characters’ Stories

5

- Moving as Still Image

- Experiencing the Lives of Others

- Glass Cobra becomes Trade Union Game



PART 2: Interviews with Sanjoy Ganguly and short essays

- Interview by Robert Klement

Interview by Robyn Kirkby

Interview by Clément Poutot

Interview by

Über Autor(innen)

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 Literatureat the University of East Anglia.