Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed: Brecht, Freire, and Boal
Abstract
In this study, Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed have been introduced, and the connection between Freire and Boal’s studies has been handled within the context of the relationship between critical pedagogy and theatre. In the study, it has been asserted that the roots of Boal’s theatre, which is often dealt with in critical pedagogy studies, must be sought not only in Freire and Bertolt Brecht’s epic-dialectical theatre theory, but primarily in Brecht’s lehrstücke-learning plays. When it comes to Boal’s theatre, this assertion hinges on the assumption that Bertolt Brecht’s lehrstücke-learning plays have been neglected by researchers. In the study, the similarities between Brecht’s epic-dialectical theatre and Boal’s theatre have been limited to the approaches of the two men of theatre to “catharsis”.
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