The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

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!).

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.