"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 Spectators (they observe!)."

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Source : Augusto Boal (2005). “Games for Actors and Non-Actors”, p.15, Routledge

Augusto Boal

#Theatre Quotes #Actors Quotes #Usage Quotes

“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

Source : John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”
“If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.”
“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”
“My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.”
“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
“Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.”

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