Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed

1. Augusto Boal was a theatre director from where?

The United States

France

Japan

Brazil

The Theatre of the Oppressed seeks to eliminate which of these?

An audience that is invested in the drama

A passive audience

Any audience

An active audience

The Theatre of the Oppressed may best be understood as a _____.

Melodrama

Ballet

Drama

Workshop

Augusto Boal shares his critique of Aristotle’s notion of catharsis with which other famous theatre director?

Konstantin Stanislavski

Bertolt Brecht

Antonin Artaud

Jerzy Grotowski

Which other educator was Augusto Boal influenced by?

John Dewey

Bell hooks

Paulo Freire

Maria Montessori

What is the first stage of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed?

Talking

Learning to take photographs

Knowing the body

Taking part in rituals

Why are games so important within Augusto Boal’s pedagogy?

Games allow us to be expressive with our bodies

Games encourage us to lose our inhibitions

Games help us to learn other languages

Games motivate us to win

What is unusual about Forum Theatre?

The audience is invited to stop the action and suggest solutions

The audience is allowed to heckle the performance

The performers are not allowed to use props or costume

The performers are masked

What is unusual about Invisible Theatre?

It always takes place in a secret location

There is no rehearsal

The spectators think they are witnessing a ‘real life’ event

The audience is asked to put money in a hat at the end

Augusto Boal wants his theatre to be like a rehearsal of _____.

A play

A revolution

A religious ceremony

A sporting event

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