<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.