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    It is not the case that Boal is mistaken in calling this kind of activity 'theater'

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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