a So remarkable and so ground-breaking ... [it is] the most important [book] on the theatre in modern times.a George Wellwarth"

The book that started a revolution in modern theatre.

''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton

Theatre of the oppressed combines analysis and practice, making it indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory as well as performance technique.

Traces Augusto Boal's development of the most used theatrical methodology in the world - the Theatre of the Oppressed