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House Lights Up: Theatre for Social Change

On display in Carrier Library, November 2018. Selected by Kerry Scannell.

Augusto Boal, founder of Theatre of the Oppressed argues, “The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution." His claim reflects the notion that theatre as a fabricated space serves as a place for people to practice change-making, and that theatre has the unique ability to bring awareness to social issues in a hugely community-focused medium. Check out some important texts and scripts in this highly entertaining display!

"We Will Be Citizens": New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre by James Fisher (Editor)
Publication Date: 2008
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict by Cynthia E. Cohen (Editor); Roberto Gutiérrez Varea (Editor); Polly O. Walker (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
The Aesthetics of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal; Adrian Jackson (Translator)
Publication Date: 2006
AIDS, Social Change and Theater by Cindy J. Kistenberg
Publication Date: 1995
All the Way by Robert Schenkkan; Bryan Cranston (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2014
The American Play and Other Works by Suzan-Lori Parks
Publication Date: 1994
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Publication Date: 2003
Anti-War Theatre after Brecht: Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century by Lara Stevens
Publication Date: 2016
Applying Performance: Live Art, Socially Engaged Theatre and Affective Practice by Nicola Shaughnessy
Publication Date: 2012
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Publication Date: 2008
A Boal Companion by Mady Schutzman (Editor); Jan Cohen-Cruz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006
Body Awareness by Annie Baker
Publication Date: 2009
Brecht Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht; W. H. Auden (Translator); Chester Kallman (Translator); Ralph Manheim (Editor, Translator, Volume Editor); Gerhard Nellhaus (Translator); John Willett (Editor, Translator, Volume Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Brecht Collected Plays by Bertolt Brecht; Tom Kuhn (Editor, Translator); David J. Constantine (Translator)
Publication Date: 2012
Bulrusher by Eisa Davis
Publication Date: 2009
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Publication Date: 2011
Come Closer: Critical Perspectives on Theatre of the Oppressed by Toby Emert; Ellie Friedland
Publication Date: 2011
Crucibles of Crisis by Janelle G. Reinelt (Editor)
Publication Date: 1996
Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice by Mary Stone Hanley (Editor); Gilda L. Sheppard (Editor); George W. Noblit (Editor); Thomas Barone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
Publication Date: 1996
Disability and Theatre: A Practical Manual for Inclusion in the Arts by Stephanie Barton Farcas
Publication Date: 2017
Disabled Theater by Sandra Umathum (Editor); Benjamin Wihstutz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
Publication Date: 2013
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Publication Date: 2005
Dramatherapy and Social Theatre by Sue Jennings (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Original Author)
Publication Date: 2011
Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements by L. M. Bogad
Publication Date: 2016
Empathy As Dialogue in Theatre and Performance by Lindsay B. Cummings
Publication Date: 2016
Essays on Theatre and Change by Kelina Gotman
Publication Date: 2017
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Publication Date: 2008
Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by Suzan-Lori Parks
Publication Date: 2016
The Flick by Annie Baker
Publication Date: 2014
Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal; Adrian Jackson (Translator)
Publication Date: 2002
Gender, Social Change and the Media by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt (Editor); Torsten Rodel Berg (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century by Peter Weibel (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Gross Indecency by Moises Kaufman
Publication Date: 1998
Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
Publication Date: 2010
Hamlet the Baker's Son by Augusto Boal; Candida Blaker (Translator); Adrian Jackson (Translator)
Publication Date: 2001
Holocaust Theater: Dramatizing Survivor Trauma and its Effects on the Second Generation by Gene Plunka
Publication Date: 2017
The How and the Why by Sarah Treem
Publication Date: 2013
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Publication Date: 1997
How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars, and Advocates by David Booth (Editor); Kathleen Gallagher (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003
The Humans by Stephen Karam; Samuel G. Freedman (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2016
Jesus Hopped the a Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Publication Date: 2001
Just One of the Boys: Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing on the American Variety Stage by Gillian M. Rodger
Publication Date: 2018
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman; Tectonic Theatre Project Staff (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2001
Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism by Patricia A. Ybarra
Publication Date: 2017
Legislative Theatre by Augusto Boal; Adrian Jackson (Translator)
Publication Date: 1998
Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson
Publication Date: 2017
Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina by Noe Montez
Publication Date: 2017
Memos from a Theatre Lab: Exploring What Immersive Theatre 'Does' by Nandita Dinesh
Publication Date: 2016
The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness by Michael Chemers
Publication Date: 2017
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn
Publication Date: 2014
Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle
Publication Date: 2006
Music, Song, Dance, and Theater: Broadway Meets Social Justice Youth Community Practice by Melvin Delgado
Publication Date: 2017
Performance, Theatre, and Society in Contemporary Nicaragua by Alberto Guevara
Publication Date: 2014
Performance in a Militarized Culture by Sara Brady; Lindsey Mantoan
Publication Date: 2017
Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity by Patrick Duggan (Editor); Lisa Peschel (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre (HB @ PB Price) by Masud Hamdan
Publication Date: 2006
Political and Protest Theatre After 9/11 by Jenny Spencer (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2011
Pregones Theatre: A Theatre for Social Change in the South Bronx by Eva C. Vasquez
Publication Date: 2003
Rape on the Contemporary Stage by Lisa Fitzpatrick
Publication Date: 2018
Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Publication Date: 2009
Scripting Detention: A Project in Theater and Autoethnography with Incarcerated Teens by Nandita Dinesh
Publication Date: 2017
Seven Guitars by August Wilson
Publication Date: 1996
Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain by Vicky Angelaki; Mark Taylor-Batty; Enoch Brater (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2017
Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg; Dramatists Play Service (New York, N.Y.) Staff (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2005
Theater and Cultural Politics in a New World: An Anthology by Chinua Thelwell
Publication Date: 2016
Theater in America by Mary C. Henderson
Publication Date: 1996
Theatre, Performance, and Change by Stephani Etheridge Woodson (Editor); Tamara Underiner (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017
Theatre, Social Media, and Meaning Making by Bree Hadley
Publication Date: 2017
Theatre, Social Media, and Meaning Making by Bree Hadley
Publication Date: 2017
Theatre and Feminism by Kim Solga
Publication Date: 2015
Theatre and Social Media by Patrick Lonergan
Publication Date: 2015
Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts by Thomas S. Hischak
Publication Date: 2016
Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy by Robert Landy; David T. Montgomery
Publication Date: 2012
Theatre for Youth Third Space: Performance, Democracy, and Community Cultural Development by Stephani Etheridge Woodson
Publication Date: 2015
Theatre Matters: Performance and Culture on the World Stage by Richard Boon (Editor)
Publication Date: 1998
Theatre of Good Intentions: Challenges and Hopes for Theatre and Social Change by D. Snyder-Young
Publication Date: 2013
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal; Charles A. McBride (Translator)
Publication Date: 1993
This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan
Publication Date: 1999
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Publication Date: 1995
Topdog-Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Publication Date: 2001
Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith
Publication Date: 1994
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler; Gloria Steinem
Publication Date: 1998
Venus: a play by Suzan-Lori Parks
Publication Date: 1997
Why Theatre Matters : Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real by Kathleen Gallagher
Publication Date: 2014
Women Writing Plays by Alexis Greene (Editor); Emilie S. Kilgore (Foreword by); Marsha Norman (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2006
The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler; Dan Kois (Contribution by)
Publication Date: 2018
Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang; Frank Rich (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2009
Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics by Glenn Odom
Publication Date: 2015

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