Augusto Boal Quotes

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• 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!)…
• When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a…
• 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…
• Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
• It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
• Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
• Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
• The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
• 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…
• Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.
• All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
• 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…
• The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

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