From Boal to Jana Sanskriti : practice and principles / Sanjoy Ganguly ; edited by Ralph Yarrow.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2016Description: 154 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138223325 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed (Kolkata, India) | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792'.0954147 Summary: 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 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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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 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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