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

Augusto Boal

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.

Augusto Boal

Anyone can do theatre. Even actors. And theatre can be done everywhere. Even in a theatre.

Augusto Boal

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.

Augusto Boal

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

Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal

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Born: March 16, 1931

Died: May 2, 2009 (aged 78)

Bio: Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements.

Known for:

Games for actors and non-actors (1992)
The rainbow of desire (1994)
Legislative theatre (1998)
Hamlet and the baker's son (2001)
Theater of the oppressed (1979)

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