Augusto Boal

| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | death_date = | death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | occupation = Theatre practitioner | language = | period = | genre = Theatre of the Oppressed | subject = | notableworks = | spouse(s) = | partner(s) = | children = | relative(s) = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Boal served one term as a ''Vereador'' (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. Provided by Wikipedia