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Augusto Boal

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Quotes by Augusto Boal

Motion, according to him, is an illusion, because we can demonstrate that it does not actually exist; the same for the multiplicity of existing things, which are in his logic, a single being, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. Like Heraclitus, Parmenides too, had his radical disciple, named Zeno. The latter had the habit of telling two stories to prove the inexistence of motion.
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Motion, according to him, is an illusion, because we can demonstrate that it does not actually exist; the same for the multiplicity of existing things, which are in his logic, a single being, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. Like Heraclitus, Parmenides too, had his radical disciple, named Zeno. The latter had the habit of telling two stories to prove the inexistence of motion.
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
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Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
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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Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!
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The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!
It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
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It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
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Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
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The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
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We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
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Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
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