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Augusto Boal Biography

Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theater practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.

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Empathy is the most powerful weapon [. . . ]

Empathy, Powerful, Weapon, Weapons

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Coercion, Perfect, Theatre

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

Character, Oppressed, Power, Theatre, Thinking, Thinks

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

Fly, Forbidden, Grass, Walk, Walks

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Actors, Changing, Citizen, Citizens, Living

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

Actors, Done, Theater

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Actors, Humans, Observe, Spectators

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.

Future, Help, Mean, Theatre, Waiting

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

Acting, People, Theater, Weapons, Wield

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

Let, Past, Remain, Study, Way

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

Fought, Reason, Theatre, Weapon, Weapons

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

Act, Buildings, Capacity, Feelings, Men, Thinking

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

Rehearsal, Revolution, Revolutionary, Theater

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

May, Mean, Offer, Possible, Theatre

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

Art, Looking, Theatre

When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.

Catharsis, Creativity, Cycle, Real, Theatre

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Actors, Archaic, Oppressed, Spectators, Theatre, Usage