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    Boal is mistaken in calling this kind of activity 'theater' — Carmelics
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    Boal is mistaken in calling this kind of activity 'theater'

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    • 1.Theater as a distinct art form requires a stable ontological separation between the fictional world and the real world of the spectators.
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    • 2.Boal's 'spect-actors' deliberately collapse this separation by intervening in the dramatic action to produce real-world political change.
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    • 3.When the fictional frame is structurally eliminated rather than temporarily suspended, the activity constitutes political praxis, not theater.
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    • 1.Aristotle's foundational account in the Poetics identifies mimesis—representational imitation—as the constitutive feature of theatrical activity.
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    • 2.Boal's Forum Theatre explicitly rejects mimetic representation in favor of rehearsal for actual social transformation, as Boal himself states in 'Theatre of the Oppressed'.
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    • 3.An activity that repudiates the defining feature of a practice cannot coherently belong to that practice without equivocating on the concept.
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    • 1.An event counts as theater only if audience members self-recognize their social role qua audience
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    • 2.In the circumstances Boal describes, audience members do not recognize themselves as an audience
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    Boal calls this kind of activity “theater” because it involves actors, scripts or scenarios, and audiences. One might argue that in these circumstances there is not, in fact, an audience, for they certainly do not recognize themselves as such. If an audience member’s self-recognition of her social role, qua audience, is necessary for an event’s counting as theater—and not merely her presence in that role—then Boal is simply mistaken in calling it theater, although it might be “theatrical” in som
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