Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum theatre, a theatrical form originally used in popular education movements. Boal served one term as vereador in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.
Background
- Born in
- Rio de Janeiro
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityFederal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Awards
- 🏆 Prince Claus Award🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
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Trending topics shown first"Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a dance piece where the dancers danced in the first act and in the second showed the audience how to dance? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a musical where in the first…"
"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."
"Biographies smack of the end, the final utterances. Mission accomplished. I, by contrast, am always at the start of some new path or other. I want more. More, more. I am given to excess. It would be a…"
"We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it."
"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. …"
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1932
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Birth2009
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