Augusto Boal

Augusto Pinto Boal or Augusto Boal (born the March 16th 1931 with Rio de Janeiro with the Brazil -) is a writer, Dramaturge, Director, theorist, man of theater, and politician Brésil contemporary IEN, who is one of the major figures of the Brazilian theater of second half of the 20th century.

Biography

Augusto Boal starts by making studies of Chimie which will carry out it until the doctorate and leads its theatrical activities in parallel. It founds in 1956 the Théâtre Arena of Sao Paulo, of which he becomes artistic director and Director.

It develops to with it until in 1964, beside traditional settings in scene, a popular theater, of street and protestor in whom it develops the character of the “spect-actor”. The successive coups d'etat of 1964, then of 1968 put an end to any possibility of practicing this kind of social theater, considered as a subversive practice. Boal, which publishes the theater of oppressed in 1971, soon is stopped, tortured and constrained with the exile towards Paris, where it will continue its work.

During the Years 1970, Augusto Boal travels in all the Latin America, tries out the various shapes of theater participative and educational, he writes and systematizes his theatrical practice. He will organize the first International festival of the Theater of oppressed in Paris in 1981.

After the end of the military Junta in Brazil, Boal returns to Rio de Janeiro in 1986, where he still lives. He establishes there important a Center of the Theater of oppressed and several companies which put into practice the Théâtre forum and the Théâtre image.

As of 1981, it leans on the therapeutic theater and what it names the cop in the head. Its third book the arc in sky of the desire is a test on this method of theater and therapy. In 1992, it is elected appointed in Rio de Janeiro on the list of left of the Parti the Workers of future President Lula and starts a new experiment: that of the legislative theater.

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