Hamlet and the Baker's Son

<em>Hamlet and the Baker's Son</em> is the autobiography of Augusto Boal inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of <em>Games for Actors and Non-Actors</em>. From his early days in Brazil's political theatre movement to his recent experiments with theatre as a democratic political process Boal 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.