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02.26.09

The 2009 World Theatre Day International Message World Theatre Day | (15)
World Theatre Day - International Message 27th March 2009 Augusto Boal All human societies are "spectacular" in their daily life and produce "spectacles" at special moments. They are "spectacular" as a form of social organization and produce "spectacles" like the one you have come to see. Even if one is unaware of it, human relationships are structured in a theatrical way. The use of space, body language, choice of words and voice modulation, the confrontation of ideas and passions, everything that we demonstrate on the stage, we live in our lives. We are theatre! Weddings and funerals are "spectacles", but so, also, are daily rituals ...

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