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.^[1] Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire and his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change in alignment originally with radical-left politics and later with centre-left ideology. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.

^ Boal, Augusto; McBride, Charles A. (2014). "Theatre of the Oppressed". The Improvisation Studies Reader: 79–86. ISBN 978-1-136-18714-8 – via Google Scholar.

[1] Boal, Augusto; McBride, Charles A. (2014). "Theatre of the Oppressed". The Improvisation Studies Reader: 79–86. ISBN 978-1-136-18714-8 – via Google Scholar.

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