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Theatre Quotes by Augusto Boal
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
More Theatre Quotes
- But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers… — Francis Bacon
- It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the… — Tallulah Bankhead
- The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
- For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills. — Kabir Bedi
- Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler
- The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. — Stella Adler
- Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I… — Theodore Bikel
- Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way… — Juliette Binoche
- This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre,… — Jacqueline Bisset