Spect-Actor
Boal's term for an audience member who steps into the play — the collapse of the spectator/actor binary is the political heart of Theatre of the Oppressed.
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- Boal: 'The spect-actor liberates themselves; they think and act for themselves.'
- Origin: the woman on the bus story — she couldn't make an actor understand what she meant, so she came on stage. Boal named the moment.
- The term itself is a refusal — Boal rejected 'audience participation' as a frame; the spect-actor is co-author, not guest.
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