Session focus
Participants read the whole book. The discussion will focus especially on the 2000 Preface, “The Unruly Protagonist,” and Chapter 4, “Poetics of the Oppressed.”
Vygotsky, performance, play and social therapeutics as a lens for reading Boal.
Guest presenter
Dr. Lois Holzman
Lois Holzman is a developmental psychologist, co-founder and director of the East Side Institute, and a leading voice in social therapeutics, performance activism and Vygotskian practice. Her work explores play, performance, improvisation and collective activity as ways of creating new possibilities for human development.
Links
Selected work and profiles
Guiding question
What happens when the spectator becomes a participant, and performance becomes a practice of development?
Programme
- 45–60 min guest presentation by Dr. Lois Holzman
- Short break
- Focused discussion of Boal
- Language: English