In Come Closer community activists scholars and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed TO work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes new audiences and new settings. Each chapter features a firstperson narrative on how the authors work both honors and transforms the vision of Augusto Boal whose imaginative response to human oppression offers the world an aesthetic intervention that has the power to move both the oppressors and the oppressed to the possibility of transformative dialogue. Contributors to this important volume center their ideas and their descriptions of their practice within theoretical frameworks particularly Paulo Freires Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Come Closer will be useful to undergraduate and graduate students as well as administrators and professors interested in the topic of democratic education.