A study of the life of Augusto Boal, a man who brought together the worlds of politics and art in his work. He has devised a unique way of using the stage to empower the disempowered, and taken his methods from the favelas of Rio to the rehearsal studios of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum Theatre system, and 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and author of Games for Actors and Non-Actors. 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.

'This readable autobiography ... is an interesting story of an extraordinary life and will no doubt inspire practitioners and students of theatre.' - Research in Drama Education