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Augusto Boal

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Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theater practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. [1]

82 relations: A Barraca, Act 2 Cam, Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens), Adriana Prieto, Andrés Neumann, Andy Serkis, Applied improvisation, Atelier-Théâtre Burkinabé, Augusto, Boal (disambiguation), Boal (surname), Brazilian literature, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Cardboard Citizens, Carolina Ravassa, Celebrity Mastermind, Chen Alon, Community theatre, Constable Care, Culture of Brazil, David Diamond (theatre), Deaths in May 2009, Donovan King, Drama teaching techniques, Epic theatre, Experimental theatre, Experimental theatre in the Arab world, Fernanda Montenegro filmography, Ferreira Gullar, Forum theatre, Free Theatre Christchurch, Gamini Haththotuwegama, George Paul Wielgus, History of theatre, Image theatre, Improvisational theatre, Interactive theatre, Invisible theater, Izaías Almada, Jennifer S Hartley, Jorge Merced, Josef Szeiler, Lehrstücke, List of Brazilian writers, List of playwrights, List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth, List of theatre directors in the 20th and 21st centuries, March 16, Maria Alice Vergueiro, Milton Gonçalves, ..., Nelson Rodrigues, North American Students of Cooperation, Nuno Roque, O Meu Marido Está a Negar, Open University of Sarajevo, Open-space learning, Ouriel Zohar, Pan Intercultural Arts, Participatory art, Paulo Freire, Pluto Press, Political theatre, Portuguese Brazilians, Presentational and representational acting, Prince Claus Fund, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Reader's theatre, Respecting elders: Communities against abuse, Teatro de Arena, Theatre, Theatre for development, Theatre games, Theatre of Burkina Faso, Theatre of the Oppressed, Theatre pedagogy, Theatre practitioner, Theatre Versus Oppression, Tragedy, UBI Theatre Leipzig, 1931 in Brazil, 1931 in literature, 2009. Expand index (32 more) »

A Barraca

A Barraca is a Portuguese theatre company founded 1975 and directed by Hélder Costa and leading actress Maria do Céu Guerra.

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Act 2 Cam

Act 2 Cam is a production company and acting school based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)

Adrian Jackson, MBE is the founder-director and chief executive of a unique theatre company, Cardboard Citizens, in which most of the performers and many other employees are homeless and ex-homeless people, refugees or asylum-seekers.

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Adriana Prieto

Adriana Prieto (1950, Buenos Aires - December 24, 1974, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian actress.

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Andrés Neumann

Andrés Neumann (born 1943) is a polyglot design thinker and performing arts and creative and cultural industries professional, born in Bolivia, raised in Uruguay and established in Europe.

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Andy Serkis

Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and film director.

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Applied improvisation

Applied improvisation is the application of improvisational methods in various fields like consulting, facilitating (workshops, team trainings, meetings, conferences…), teaching, coaching, researching, generating or evolving ideas and designs, theatrical training and playing, medical and therapeutic settings or in social work.

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Atelier-Théâtre Burkinabé

The Atelier-Théâtre Burkinabé (ATB) is a Burkinabé theatre group which practises "theatre for development".

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Augusto

Augusto may be a given name, or a Portuguese and Spanish surname.

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Boal (disambiguation)

Boal can refer to.

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Boal (surname)

The Boal surname is a variant of Bowell and Boyle.

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Brazilian literature

Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written prior to the country’s independence in 1822.

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Brian Sonia-Wallace

Brian Sonia-Wallace is a poet (alias RENT Poet), theatre maker, and cultural journalist living in Los Angeles.

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Cardboard Citizens

Cardboard Citizens is the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company, and the leading practitioner of Forum Theatre and the Theatre of the Oppressed methodology in the UK.

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Carolina Ravassa

Carolina Ravassa (born 15 June 1985) is a Colombian actress and producer who studied a Theatre Arts degree at Boston College, as well as a year of acting for film/TV at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.

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Celebrity Mastermind

Celebrity Mastermind is a celebrity version of Mastermind, a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television.

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Chen Alon

Chen Alon is an Israeli lecturer, activist, and cofounder of Combatants for Peace.

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Community theatre

Community theatre refers to theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities—its usage includes theatre made by, with, and for a community.

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Constable Care

Originally conceived in 1989, the Constable Care Child Safety Foundation is a not for profit community organisation working in partnership with the Western Australia Police, to educate children and young people in primary and secondary schools across the State about safety, crime prevention, ethics and good decision making.

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Culture of Brazil

The culture of Brazil is primarily Western, but presents a very diverse nature showing that an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period involving mostly Indigenous peoples of the coastal and most accessible riverine areas, Portuguese people and African people.

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David Diamond (theatre)

David Diamond is the Artistic and Managing Director of the Vancouver based company Theatre for Living (formerly known as Headlines Theatre) and the originator of Theatre for Living techniques.

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Deaths in May 2009

The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.

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Donovan King

Donovan King is a professional actor, teacher, historian, and tour guide from Montreal, Quebec.

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Drama teaching techniques

There are many methods for teaching Drama.

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Epic theatre

Epic theatre (episches Theater) is a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners who responded to the political climate of the time through the creation of a new political theatre.

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Experimental theatre in the Arab world

Experimental theatre in the Arab world emerged in the post-colonial era as a fusion of Western theatrical traditions with local performance cultures such as music and dance.

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Fernanda Montenegro filmography

This is a complete filmography of Fernanda Montenegro, a Brazilian actress.

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Ferreira Gullar

José Ribamar Ferreira (September 10, 1930 – December 4, 2016), known by his pen name Ferreira Gullar, was a Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer.

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Forum theatre

Forum Theatre is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal, one of the techniques under the umbrella term of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO).

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Free Theatre Christchurch

Free Theatre Christchurch in Christchurch, New Zealand, was established in 1979, and is New Zealand’s longest running producer of experimental theatre.

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Gamini Haththotuwegama

Gamini Kalyanadarsha Haththotuwegama (29 November 1939 – 30 October 2009) was a Sri Lankan playwright, director, actor, critic and educator.

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George Paul Wielgus

George Paul Wielgus (b. Frome, UK, 1983) is a performance poet, community arts worker and writer from the UK.

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History of theatre

The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years.

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Image theatre

Image Theatre is a performance technique in which one person, acting as a sculptor, moulds one or more people acting as statues, using only touch and resisting the use of words or mirror-image modelling.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improv or impro, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted: created spontaneously by the performers.

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Interactive theatre

Interactive theatre is a presentational or theatrical form or work that breaks the "fourth wall" that traditionally separates the performer from the audience both physically and verbally.

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Invisible theater

Invisible theatre is a form of theatrical performance that is enacted in a place where people would not normally expect to see one, for example in the street or in a shopping centre.

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Izaías Almada

Izaías Almada is a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Jennifer S Hartley

Jennifer S Hartley is a Scottish applied theatre practitioner, director and writer.

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Jorge Merced

Jorge B. Merced (born 1965) is a New York-based Puerto Rican actor, theatre director, and gay activist.

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Josef Szeiler

Josef Szeiler (7 August 1948 in Sankt Michael im Burgenland) is an Austrian theatre director.

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Lehrstücke

The Lehrstücke (plural form; singular: Lehrstück) are a radical and experimental form of modernist theatre developed by Bertolt Brecht and his collaborators from the 1920s to the late 1930s.

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List of Brazilian writers

This is a list of Brazilian writers, those born in Brazil or who have established citizenship or residency.

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List of playwrights

This is a list of notable playwrights.

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List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language: See also: List of playwrights; List of early-modern women playwrights; Lists of writers.

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List of theatre directors in the 20th and 21st centuries

This is a list of theatre directors, living and dead, who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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March 16

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Maria Alice Vergueiro

Maria Alice Monteiro de Campos Vergueiro (born January 19, 1935) is a Brazilian actress with an extensive career on stage, cinema, and television.

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Milton Gonçalves

Milton Gonçalves (born in Monte Santo, Minas Gerais, Brazil, on December 9, 1933) is a Brazilian actor.

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Nelson Rodrigues

Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist.

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North American Students of Cooperation

The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) is a federation of housing cooperatives in Canada and the United States, started in 1968.

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Nuno Roque

Nuno Roque (born September 15, 1988) is a Portuguese actor, singer-songwriter, director and mime artist.

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O Meu Marido Está a Negar

O Meu Marido Está a Negar is a 2007 documentary film about a play of the same name, written and directed by Rogério Manjate.

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Open University of Sarajevo

The Open University of Sarajevo (Otvoreni univerzitet Sarajevo / Отворени универзитет Сарајево) is a non-profit experimental school for interactive education, social activism and public debate.

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Open-space learning

Open-space Learning, or OSL, is a pedagogic methodology.

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Ouriel Zohar

Ouriel Zohar (born 1952), is an Israeli and French theater director, playwright, poet and translator from French to Hebrew.

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Pan Intercultural Arts

Pan is an intercultural arts organization and registered charity based in London, UK, that uses the arts to explore cultural diversity and social change.

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Participatory art

Participatory art is an approach to making art in which the audience is engaged directly in the creative process, allowing them to become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work.

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Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.

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Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London.

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Political theatre

Political theatre is theatre that comments on political issues.

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Portuguese Brazilians

Portuguese Brazilians (luso-brasileiros) are Brazilian citizens whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Portugal.

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Presentational and representational acting

Presentational acting and the related representational acting are opposing ways of sustaining the actor–audience relationship.

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Prince Claus Fund

The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of the Netherlands.

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Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble

The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) is an Australian theatre company.

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Reader's theatre

Reader's theatre or Reader's theater is a style of theater in which the actors do not memorize their lines.

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Respecting elders: Communities against abuse

Respecting Elders: Communities Against Elder Abuse (RECAA) is an elder abuse initiative that operates in Montreal, Quebec.

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Teatro de Arena

Teatro de Arena was a theatre in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Theatre for development

Theatre for Development (TfD) means live performance, or theater used as a development tool—as in international development.

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Theatre games

The theatre games tradition is a method of training actors that was developed in the 20th century by practitioners such as Joan Littlewood, Viola Spolin, Paul Sills, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal.

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Theatre of Burkina Faso

Theatre of Burkina Faso (formerly the Republic of Upper Volta) combines traditional Burkinabé performance with the colonial influences and post-colonial efforts to educate rural people to produce a distinctive national theatre.

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Theatre of the Oppressed

The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe.

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Theatre pedagogy

Theatre pedagogy (Theaterpädagogik) is an independent discipline combining both theatre and pedagogy.

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Theatre practitioner

Theatre practitioner is a modern term to describe someone who both creates theatrical performances and who produces a theoretical discourse that informs his or her practical work.

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Theatre Versus Oppression

Theatre Versus Oppression (TVO) is a UK registered charity (sc039092) which specialises in using Applied Theatre techniques to bring about positive change and development in communities and individuals.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.

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UBI Theatre Leipzig

UBI Theatre Leipzig is a bilingual (English and German) theatre company based in Leipzig (Germany).

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1931 in Brazil

Events in the year 1931 in Brazil.

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1931 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1931.

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2009

2009 was designated as.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal

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