Theatre of the Oppressed Quotes

“Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.”
― Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed

“It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.”
― Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed

“Motion, according to him, is an illusion, because we can demonstrate that it does not actually exist; the same for the multiplicity of existing things, which are in his logic, a single being, infinite, eternal, unchangeable. Like Heraclitus, Parmenides too, had his radical disciple, named Zeno. The latter had the habit of telling two stories to prove the inexistence of motion.”
― Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed

“A person to whom the oracles had said that he was going to marry his own mother and kill his own father would have to be a little careful and abstain from killing men old enough to be his father or marrying women old enough to be his mother.”
― Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed