Augusto Boal Quotes

Brazil, Theatrical Producer
March 16, 1931 – May, 2, 2009.

Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theater 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 (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.

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

Augusto Boal
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.

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- Path
- Place
- Examined

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

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- Theater
- Weapon
- Wield
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

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

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- Fly
- Walk
- Grass
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

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

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- Society
- Living
- Changing
Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

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- Present
- Study
- Invent

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
- Future
- Knowledge
- Theatre
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.

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- Art
- Theatre
- Looking