n working with them on a production of Hamlet. Boal is considering a second RSC proposal to direct a Hamlet in London in the summer of 1998. Typical of Boal, he is not interested in the central story but in the characters who are usually cut from the play, and is thus thinking of a text of the marginal characters, the ones without much power. He says it is similar to the national dish of Brazil which is based on a stew made by slaves of the leavings from the masters table.ATHE AwardIn August, 1997, Boal was awarded the Career Achievement Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education during their national conference in Chicago. At the Conference, Boal conducted yet another of his five-hour workshops for conference attendees as well as received the coveted Career Achievement honor.Boal's International TravelsTraveling extensively between Rio, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and now North America on a substantial working tour, Boal labors tirelessly to make his processes available to as many people as he can reach. December 1998 found him in England offering his remarkable Legislative Theatre not only as a model of public performance, but as a communication network on the Internet. For this reason, the entire performance day was on-line on the World Wide Web so that people around the world could respond.Boal went on a first major tour of the US in February and March, 1999, traveling to the following universities and colleges: New College in Sarasota, FL; Vassar; Dartmouth; Colby College; University of Georgia; Florida State; and Kansas State. New College, Dartmouth, and Kansas State, and perhaps others of these, now have student TO companies working regularly on Boal techniques.Recently Boal has been devoting considerable time to directing a samba version of the grand opera Carmen, his first formal directing project in Brazil since his exile in 1970. Early reports indicate that the event was thrilling, rich in the sounds an...
