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navigation, search  Forum theatre is a type of theatre created
by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal as
part of what he calls his "Theatre of the Oppressed." Boal
created Forum theatre as a forum for teaching people how to
change their world. While practicing earlier in his career, Boal
would apply 'simultaneous dramaturgy'. In this process the
actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a
short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some
way. The audience would suggest different actions for the actors
to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of
what they were seeing. This was an attempt to undo the
traditional actor partition and bring audience members into the
performance, to have an input into the dramatic action they were
watching. In 2006 it has been recorded as the most used way to
help new people in the theatre.[citation needed]  Origin and
history[edit]  Boal developed and pra