Brazilian Theater, 1970-2010: Essays on History, Politics and Artistic Experimentation

by Eva Paulino Bueno (Editor), Robson Corrêa de Camargo (Editor)

Overview

How did Brazilian theater survive under the military dictatorship of 1964-1985? How did it change once the regime was over? This collection of new essays is the first to cover Brazilian theater during this period. Brazilian scholars and artists discuss the history of a theater community that not only resisted the regime but reinvented itself and continued to develop more sophisticated forms of expression even in the face of competition from television and other media.

The contributors recount the struggle to stage meaningful plays at a time when some artists and intellectuals were exiled, others imprisoned, tortured or killed. With the return of democracy other important issues arose: how to ensure space for different practices and for regional theater, and how to continue producing international plays that could be meaningful for a Brazilian audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786497034
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	03/25/2015
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. Robson Corrêa de Camargo is a professor of drama and performance at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, where he heads the Ph.D. Program of Cultural Performances. He has also been a theater critic with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Movimento.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Eva Paulino Bueno Robson Correa de Camargo 1

I Establishing Historical Markers

Weaving the Narrative of the Construction of the History of Brazilian Theater in the 1970s Jacó Guinsburg Rosangela Patriota 13

Factory Workers on Stage: The Creation of Grupo de Teatro Forja in Sao Paulo's Industrial Region Tin Urbinatti 36

History and Stories of Animation Theater in Brazil, 1970-2010 Wagner Cintra 53

For the Future of a History of the Theater in Rio Grande do Sul Tais Ferreira 72

Children's Theater in Btazil: History, Pedagogy and Art Leny Fernandes Zulim 91

Moments of Street Theater in Brazil: A Brief Historical Review Licko Turle Jussara Trindade 108

Family-Circus, Theater-Circus: It Is Theater in the Circus Erminia Silva 126

II Practices and Experiments

Imbrication of Art and Politics: Group Theater in the City of Sao Paulo and Movements Against Barbarism Alexandte Mate 143

The Sound and Meaning of Accents: A Study of the Paraíba Case Adriana Fernandes 166

Melodrama and Companhia dos Atores of Rio de Janeiro: New Dramatic Forms for an Old Genre Robson Correa de Camargo 183

Hybrid Aesthetic Identity in Capitao e a Sereia by the Group Clowns de Shakespeare in Rio Grande do Norte Erlon Cherque Pinto 206

Shared Memories in a Brasília Drama Rita de Almeida Castro 222

Beckett with Curupita Feet: Group Máskara, Readings and Receptions to Beckett in the Interior of Brazil Eduardo José Reinato 233

About the Contributors 247

Index 251