We are joined in our studio by one of Latin America’s most famed dissident artists, Brazilian Augusto Boal. He reflects back on his life in exile and his use of theater as a tool of resistance.

And one of Latin America’s most famed dissident artists, Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal, has died at the age of seventy-eight. Boal was the developer of the Theater of the Oppressed. In 1971 the ...

The celebrated Brazilian theatre director, dramatist, cultural and political activist, Augusto Boal died on May 2 in Rio de Janerio at the age of 78. Boal who had leukemia died of respiratory failure, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO ― An Isreali and Arab child come together in Jerusalem; cultural differences are discussed in war-ridden Khartoum; a man decides to get tested for HIV in Mozambique; a prisoner walks ...

In lieu of World Theatre Day on March 27, Juliana Lazarus highlights the Theatre of the Oppressed in Bangalore; a movement that was started by Brazilian Augusto Boal as an antidote to the theatre of ...

The movie Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed shows the path of the dramaturgo Augusto Boal at the creation of a theatre that has as objective to transform those who participate it in a ...

Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician Augusto Boal was born on March 16, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro as the son of José Augustino Mario Charles Boal (a Portuguese baker) and Albertina Chantele ...

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Augusto Pinto Boal (Rio de Janeiro, March 16, 1931 – Rio de Janeiro, May 2, 2009) was a Brazilian theater director, playwright and essayist, one of the great figures of international contemporary ...