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ItemSymbols and power in Theatre of the Oppressed( 1999-09)Augusto Boal developed Theatre of the Oppressed as a way of using the symbolic language of the dramatic arts in the examination of power relations in both the personal and social contexts. Boal understood that symbolic realities directly influence empirical reality and that drama, as an art form that employs the narrative and the event, serves as a powerful interface between symbols and actuality. In the dramatic process, the creation and the environment from which it emerges are inevitably transformed in the process of enactment. These transformations manifest in the context of power relations - in the context of the receptors ability to make decisions and to engage in actions, and the communicators ability to influence the receptors opinions and behaviour. This thesis will examine two different practices in which symbolic realities have been utilised in the context of human relations of power. Primarily, this thesis examines the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed as it has developed.
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ItemThe wings of active thought: a study of mind-travelling and voyage drama in early modern England( 2010)The purpose of this study is to explain how voyage drama works, and why playwrights wrote about travel and exotic settings. Criticism of early modern travel has produced first-rate studies of the colonial, mercantile, and pilgrimage mindsets, but playgoers did not leave the theatre with material acquisitions or spiritual fulfilment. Playgoing was primarily a pleasurable pursuit. Treating voyage drama as a vicarious travel experience yields new insights into early modern attitudes to travel and the nature of theatrical representation.