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Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre, a theatrical form originally used in 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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science · Brazilian dramatist and political activist · theatre director · writer · politician · playwright · scientist · director · theatre manager · also Augusto Boal, Augusto Pinto Boal, Boal
Born 16 March 1931 · Died 2 May 2009 · Q434805
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2026· 2 entries
Million: Quem foi Augusto Boal, o pai do Teatro do Oprimido?
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2024· 1 entry
O Tempo: Livro traz peças inéditas de Augusto Boal, que criou o Teatro do Oprimido
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2016· 1 entry
globo: As cartas no exílio do diretor teatral Augusto Boal
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2012· 1 entry
Veja São Paulo: Redescubra Augusto Boal e o Teatro do Oprimido em DVD e no Sesc Pompeia
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2009· 5 entries
Democracy Now: Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, Dies
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Extra: Lula lamenta morte de Augusto Boal, um dos maiores dramaturgos do Brasil
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Died 2009-05-02.
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globo: Morre Augusto Boal, um dos maiores dramaturgos do Brasil
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“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.”
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2005).
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Democracy Now: Famed Brazilian Artist Augusto Boal on the “Theater of the Oppressed”
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Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Dies at 78 Interview on Democracy Now
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2003· 2 entries
globo: Corpo de Augusto Boal é cremado no Rio
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globo: Corpo de Augusto Boal será cremado
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1996· 1 entry
But he continued performing legislative theatre acts with different groups in Brasília, where four more laws got approved even after Boal had left
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1994· 1 entry
Boal won the UNESCO Pablo Picasso Medal, and in August 1997, he was awarded the "Career Achievement Award" by the Association of Theatre in Higher Education at their national conference in Chicago, Illinois
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1992· 1 entry
Boal ran for city councillor in Rio de Janeiro as a theatrical act, and he was elected
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1971· 2 entries
Initially went to Peru and then Argentina, where he completed and published his seminal theoretical work The Theatre of the Oppressed and consolidated his conscientização (consciousness-raising) theatre work based on
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Boal was kidnapped off the street, arrested, tortured, and eventually exiled to Argentina, where he stayed for five years
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1964· 1 entry
With a coup d'état supported by the Brazilian elite, the industrialists, the military, as well as by the United States, Boal's teachings were controversial, and as a cultural activist he was seen as a threat by the Braz
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1959· 1 entry
And directed by Augusto Boal
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1956· 1 entry
Shortly after graduating, Boal was asked to work with the Arena Theatre in São Paulo, southeast Brazil
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1955· 1 entry
Boal staged productions of two of his own plays, The Horse and the Saint and The House Across the Street
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-03-16.
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