Boal presenting a workshop on the Riverside Church in New York, 13 May 2008.
Born
(1931-03-16)16 March 1931 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died
2 May 2009(2009-05-02) (aged 78) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation
Theatre practitioner
Genre
Theatre of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) 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 (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.[1]
^Paterson, Doug. A Brief Biography of Augusto Boal. ptoweb.or
AugustoBoal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of...
Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by Brazilian theatre director AugustoBoal. It is one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the...
Brazilian theatre practitioner AugustoBoal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of...
Éditions de L'Arche, 1999, pp. 69–70. Henry Thorau: Interview mit AugustoBoal, in: AugustoBoal: Theater der Unterdrückten / Übungen und Spiele für Schauspieler...
practitioner AugustoBoal and Panagiotis Assimakopoulos developed the form during their time in Argentina in the 1960s as part of Boal's Theatre of the...
by the 20th-century Brazilian dramatists Gianfrancesco Guarnieri and AugustoBoal, with music by Edu Lobo. Portals: Brazil Latin America History Biography...
Spolin, Paul Sills, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and AugustoBoal. Theatre games are also commonly used as warm-up exercises for actors...
Oppressed, an influential collection of theatrical forms developed by AugustoBoal in the 1970s, aims to create dialogue and interaction between audience...
Grotowski's poor theatre. Contemporary theatre practitioners include AugustoBoal with his Theatre of the Oppressed, Dario Fo's popular theatre, Eugenio...
director Jonathan Petherbridge, who used workshops based on the methods of AugustoBoal, he spent 18 months acting in a broad range of productions from Brecht...
deterritorialisation from the mid-19th century onwards. Both Bertolt Brecht and AugustoBoal define their epic theatre projects (non-Aristotelian drama and Theatre...
Polish-language play by Czesław Miłosz Theatre of the Oppressed, originated by AugustoBoal "T.O.", a song by Lil Wayne from the album Funeral To (surname), including...
Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 0815318987. OCLC 38270815. Retrieved 4 January 2020. AugustoBoal (1993). Theater of the Oppressed. New York: Theatre Communications Group...
Carrancas Antonio Jerônimo de Meneses Neto Antonio Manuel Lima Dias AugustoBoalAugusto Carlos da Silva Teles Pinduca Ballet Stagium Carlos Lopes CUCA/UNE...
the underlying human relationships. Immersive theater: Developed by AugustoBoal, these styles all place focus on the audience member's individuality:...
artist Augusto Antonio Barbera (born 1938), Italian law professor, politician and judge Augusto Benedico (1909–1992), Mexican actor AugustoBoal (1931–2009)...
Gramsci's interpretation of culture, the seminal theatre practitioner AugustoBoal developed a series of techniques known as the Theatre of the Oppressed...
Mayakovsky Vsevolod Meyerhold Bertolt Brecht Friedrich Dürrenmatt 7:84 AugustoBoal Howard Brenton Caryl Churchill Distancing effect David Edgar (playwright)...
Ferreira Gullar and Manuel Bandeira; dramatists like Nelson Rodrigues and AugustoBoal, and literary critics and theorists as Antonio Candido and Otto Maria...
Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook, Jerzy Grotowski, AugustoBoal, Eugenio Barba, Dario Fo, Viola Spolin, Keith Johnstone and Robert Wilson...
Carrancas Antonio Jerônimo de Meneses Neto Antonio Manuel Lima Dias AugustoBoalAugusto Carlos da Silva Teles Pinduca Ballet Stagium Carlos Lopes CUCA/UNE...
participation can be likened to AugustoBoal's Theater of the Oppressed, which also claims that "spectator is a bad word". Boal expected audience members to...
Honorary Doctorate, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1996, along with AugustoBoal, during their residency at the Second Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed...
form of theatrical protest in the Theatre of the Oppressed created by AugustoBoal in the 1960s. The form increased in popularity within performance studies...
not giving them answers, thereby getting them to think for themselves; AugustoBoal wanted his audiences to react directly to the action; and Antonin Artaud...
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