Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

- Augusto Boal

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

- Augusto Boal

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

- Augusto Boal

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

- Augusto Boal

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for.

- Augusto Boal

When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never - since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a de…

- Augusto Boal

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

- Augusto Boal

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or t…

- Augusto Boal

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spec…

- Augusto Boal