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Augusto Boal

(1931–2009) Theatre Director Brazil

17 quotes in 84 categories

Augusto Boal was a theatre director from Brazil, best known for Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs: pratique du théâtre de l'opprimé.

Quick Facts About Augusto Boal

Born: March 16, 1931
Died: May 2, 2009
Nationality: Brazil
Profession: Theatre Director
Notable works: Jeux pour acteurs et non-acteurs: pratique du théâtre de l'opprimé

About 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 a Vereador in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Prince Claus Award Guggenheim Fellowship Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)

Quotes by Augusto Boal

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

Intelligence

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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

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Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build…

Form

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The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to…

Action

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

Actors

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

Forbidden

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

Actors

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It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all…

Journey

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Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property…

Acting

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Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

Art

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Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

Empathy

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Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

Artistic

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

Actors

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

Rehearsal

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

Acting

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When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,…

Activity

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

Inspirational

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