Augusto boal biography

1. Early Life and Education
2. Training and Influences
3. Arena Theatre of São Paulo
4. Popularity and Success
5. Exile
6. Development of Theatre of the Oppressed
7. Pedagogical Focus
8. Forum Theatre
9. Return to Brazil
10. Legislative Theatre
11. Later Work
12. Legacy

Early Life and Education

Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, playwright, and social activist, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1931.

His parents were José Augusto Boal, a Portuguese baker, and Alberta Pinto, a homemaker.

Augusto boal biography

Growing up, Boal had a passion for parody with his brothers but became involved in theater only after completing his university education.

Training and Influences

Boal studied chemical engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

In 1952, he went to New York to pursue a Master of Arts at Columbia University's School of Dramatic Arts. There, he studied with influential teac