A classic bestseller by one of the most important theatre practitioners of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This handbook has sold over 90,000 copies to students, teachers and theatre makers, giving them a broad range of theatre exercises to use in classrooms, rehearsals and community projects. Makes social and community theatre fun, engaging and easily accessible for a broad audience.

No other book sets out all of Boal's methods in one place, not least in such a clear, practical manner.

Na de verwoesting van de door koning Salomon gebouwde tempel van Jeruzalem verlieten in 586 voor Christus vele Joden Israel om zich te verspreiden over de wereld waar ze trouw bleven aan hun geloof en gebruiken. Na heropbouw van de tempel werd die in 70 na Chr. door de Romeinen opnieuw met de grond gelijkgemaakt. Er volgde toen een tweede Diaspora. Naarmate het Christendom in grote delen van de wereld invloed kreeg werden Joden gezien als de moordenaars van Jezus en begon de vervolging. In Du...

Sergei Tretyakov is one of those artists and intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century whose name is known, but whose achievements are barely recognized. He seems curiously elusive. Who exactly was he? What did he do? A victim of Stalin’s Great Terror, declared an ‘enemy of the people’, his works were ‘disappeared’ and his name forbidden to be mentioned.

But he was at the very heart of avant-garde modernism. He collaborated with Sergei Eisenstein both in the theatre...