 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 some tenuous sense.