Augusto Boal - playwright, director, and theorist; Theatre of the Oppressed; Boal created different theatrical techniques that involved the audience more directly in the action:-In "forum theatre," the audience is shown a scene in which the protagonist tries unsuccessfully to overcome oppression relevant to the audience. Audience members are invited to replace the protagonist at any time to try a new solution to the problem. The scene is played multiple times with multiple solutions and followed by a discussion of how to apply solutions to the problem in the real world.-Forum theatre creates the "spect-actor": the transformation of passive audience members "into subjects, into actors, into transformers of the dramatic action."