In «Come Closer » community activists scholars and theatre artists describe their Theatre of
the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes new audiences and
new settings. Each chapter features a first-person narrative on how the authors' work both
honors and transforms the vision of Augusto Boal whose imaginative response to human
oppression offers the world an aesthetic intervention that has the power to move both the
oppressors and the oppressed to the possibility of transformative dialogue. Contributors to
this important volume center their ideas and their descriptions of their practice within
theoretical frameworks particularly Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. «Come Closer»
will be useful to undergraduate and graduate students as well as administrators and professors
interested in the topic of democratic education.
