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Hamlet and the Baker’s Son<\/em>\u00a0is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ and author of\u00a0Games for Actors and Non-Actors<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Legislative Theatre<\/em>. Continuing to travel the world giving workshops and inspiration to teachers, prisoners, actors and care-workers, Augusto Boal is a visionary as well as a product of his times – the Brazil of military dictatorship and artistic and social repression and was once imprisoned for his subversive activities.<\/p>\n

From his early days in Brazil’s political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process, Boal’s story is a moving and memorable one. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods everywhere from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.<\/p>\n\n\n