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Some plays he wrote were Arena Conta Zumbi, Arena Conta Bolivar, Arena Conta Tiradentes, and Revolution in South America. Although he is more recognized for Theatre of the Oppressed.
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Born March 16, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro. His father was Jose Augusto Boal and his mother was Albertina Pinto Boal. -
He earned a chemical engineering degree, in addition to chemical engineering he also studied theatre at Columbia university at New York City although his interest in theatre began at an early age -
In New York Augusto wrote and directed his first play, "The House Across the Street".
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Augusto returned home to Brazil 1955 and in 1956 he began his caeer with the arena theatre in São Paulo. -
This was a type of theatre where the spectator or audience member would go up and act out a suggestion for the part of the oppressed character in the play.
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Boal inspired by Paulo Freire's book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" began experimenting with living newspaper theatre ( a dramatization of a problem) in the late 1960's
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before Theatre of the Oppressed, in the 1960's he started with agitprop theatre and combined it with living newspaper. A form of encouraging revolutionary ideas and designed for fast outdoor performance.
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the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état was the overthrow of the Brazilian president João Goulart by a military coup from March 31 to April 1, 1964, ending the fourth Brazilian republic and initiating the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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Augusto boal was married to Cecilia Thummim Boal and had two children( Fabian and Julian Boal)
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In 1971 Augusto boal was arrested and tortured for his work which was considered subversive by the military junta and was exiled for 15 years to Argentina. he stayed for 5 years then self exiled to Europe.
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The first is image theater(form of tableaux) and the other is Forum theater which only a short scene is preformed. Both involve oppression and are changed by spectators. The last one is invisible theater, where actors preform a rehearsed situation in public to provoke reactions from bystanders. Theatre of the oppressed also helps with breaking that invisible wall that separates actors and audience members. By doing this he ignored the six elements of a play that Aristotle came up with. -
while in exile he went to Sorbonne in Paris to teach his revolutionary approach to theatre. -
Boal Organized an international theatre of the oppressed festival in Paris and set up a center for the practice of his theory. And in 1986 when he returned to Brazil he also established a center for Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro and several other community theatre companies.
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In the fall August Boal ran for city council and won a seat. With this he was able to obtain funding for the first international festival in Brazil in July 1993. He served until 1996.
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Jeux Pour Acteurs et Non-acteur is a book with techniques, games, exercises, and methods made to help anyone rehearse for real life -
It was a form of forum theatre that mainly focused on policies and laws that could solve problems. It's a short scene that ends in crisis and a spectator is then invited to play a character to help solve the problem.
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Augusto won the UNESCO Pablo Picasso Medal. It is given to groups or individuals in recognition of an outstanding contribution the the arts and culture
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A statemnet of Augusto Boals about the therapeutic ability of theatre to change and liberate individuals. -
Boal was awarded the Association for Theatre in Higher Education during his national conference in Chicago In August
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May 2nd, 2009, Rio de Janeiro from respiratory failures.