Augusto Boal

Mar 16, 1931 - May 2, 2009

Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.
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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 possible paths may be examined.”

Augusto Boal
Mar 16, 1931 - May 2, 2009

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