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Boal believed that the theatre was a good place for people to think about solutions to social and political problems. However, the government at the time did not agree with Boal’s politics. The government captured Augusto Boal in 1971. They put him in prison and tortured him. After Boal was released, he could not stay in Brazil. So he continued his work in other countries. In Argentina, he published his first book. It told about his ideas for a Theatre of the Oppressed. In this book, Boal wrote:
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“The story of the oppressed is basically the story of finding freedom. The person watching no longer gives power to the characters to think or act in his place. He frees himself. He thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!”
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Boal wrote many more books after this. Boal’s main idea was that by performing plays, a community could get ideas about how to make their situations better. And they could practice positive change with their bodies. These are not plays where people watch a play and then leave. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, everyone has a voice.

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Today there are Theatre of the Oppressed centers in over 70 countries around the world. In Australia, a company travels around visiting schools. They perform a play about bullying, when some children are unkind to smaller or weaker children. The children help think of ways to stop bullies. They also have a chance to practice what they would do if they were bullied. The children think these plays are fun. And they like having the chance to act out a better situation. But they are also learning very important skills for making a better community.
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A theatre group called Jana Sanskriti works in Bengal in northern India. They identified that their communities had a problem with drinking too much alcohol. In a report, Jana Sanskriti says how they were able to make a change using forum theatre:
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“Jana Sanskriti put up plays on the issue in many villages. Immediate action resulted from debates at forum theatre meetings. People began to think about what they could really do to change the situation. For example, they tried to find other jobs for those who were selling alcohol. Even today there are anti-alcohol groups in the villages. Our members had tried to stop alcoholism through making laws. They had even tried to use force. They were not successful. But forum theatre really helped.”
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Augusto Boal worked up until his death in 2009. Now his son Julian Boal continues this work with the Theatre of the Oppressed. People around the world continue to use his ideas about theatre to find a better future. This often leads to action that makes their community better. As Augusto Boal told Democracy Now:
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“The truth is: Everything is possible. If we have in our minds that everything can be changed to be better then another world is possible. I believe in real change. I believe that in the present we have to look at the past. But we invent the future.”
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The writer and producer of this program was Rena Dam. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again, and read it, on the internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called, ‘Changing Communities through Theatre’.
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