Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal is a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician and also the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed. This method uses theatre as a means of knowledge and transformation of the interior reality in the social and relational field. He contends that the Aristotelian ethic is a means of oppressing the masses which favours a select and privileged hierarchy. Theatre of the Oppressed aimed to reverse the Brazilian government's oppressive use of theatre to propagate its system. Instead, Boal's method incites an active public which explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living. "While some people make theater,"says Boal, "we are all theater."