ABSTRACT
Augusto Boal’s theatre is intensely physical in nature: everything begins with the image, and the image is made up of human bodies. Boal’s theatre takes the body of the spect-actor as its chief means of expression. The body also becomes the primary locus of the ideological inscriptions and oppressions Boal wishes to address through theatre. The initial apprehension is of the body; discussion of the ideological implications of the images follows upon that apprehension.
