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January 18th 1995
by Routledge
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Paperback, 188 pages
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0415103495
(isbn13: 9780415103497)
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The Rainbow of Desire is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives
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Read in March, 2009
For the most part, Boal is your typical anarcho-optimist, a conservative by virtue of the Utopian tautology underlying his supposedly decentralized artistic system. He employs, when needed, a dash of Freud, some Stanislavski and Lope de Vega, a two-dimensional Aristotle and a primarily iconographic Marx, cutting and pasting, organizing to his purposes a frightening monument built "in the hope that after the carnivalesque paroxysms of theatre will come once again the Ash Wednesday of a new ...more
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recommends it for: anyone interested in theatre, therapy, or fighting oppression
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The original title for this book was supposed to be Cop in the Head but Boal's publisher said, "No one will buy a book called 'Cop in the Head.' You have to call it 'Rainbow of Desire.'" I fault it one star short of five because actually enacting the techniques described in this book are far more vital than the book itself, (and I'm just saying that because facilitating Theatre of the Oppressed workshops is what I do for work these days).
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