Frases de augusto boal biography

Augusto Boal (16 March – 2 May) was a Brazilian author, playwright and director who served one term as city councillor in Rio de Janeiro from to He is most well known as the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a dramatic form of popular education, now used by social movements in more than 70 countries.

Quotes

• I believe in democracy, but in real democracy, not a phony democracy in which just powerful people can speak. For me, in a democracy everyone speaks.

• As quoted in "To Dynamize the Audience: Interview with Augusto Boal" by Robert Enight, Canadian Theatre Review 47 (Summer ), pp.

Games for Actors and non-Actors ()

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

• In its most archaic sense, theatre is the capacity possessed by human beings—and not by animals—to observe themselves in action. Humans are capable of seeing themselves in the act of seeing, of thinking their emotions, of being m