Editing Augusto Boal (section)

{{short description|Brazilian dramatist and political activist}}
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| caption       = Boal presenting a workshop on the  [[Riverside Church]] in [[New York City|New York]], 13 May 2008.
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| birth_place    = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|2009|05|02|1931|03|16|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
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| genre         = [[Theatre of the Oppressed]]
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'''Augusto Boal''' ({{IPA|pt-BR|awˈgustu boˈaw|lang}}; 16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of [[Theatre of the Oppressed]], a theatrical form originally used in [[Far-left politics|radical left]] popular education movements. Boal served one term as a ''Vereador'' (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in [[Rio de Janeiro]] from 1993 to 1997, where he developed [[Theatre of the Oppressed#Legislative theatre|legislative theatre]].<ref name=PTO>Paterson, Doug.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20090302151127/http://www.ptoweb.org/boal.html A Brief Biography of Augusto Boal]. ptoweb.or</ref>