Title After the long silence : the theatre of Brazil's post-dictatorship generation / Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) Series Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. Contents The year is 1964 : April fools', or a historical preface -- The stage under the dictatorship -- On the cusp of democracy -- Brazil's (benevolent) archive and (fragmented) repertoire -- An imperfect transition -- The concept of generation -- The theatricalities of the post-dictatorship generation -- Children of censorship -- A theater genealogy -- Artist collectives and group theater -- The path to professionalization -- Reclaiming the body -- A changing university system -- A political theater of one's own -- The scope of this project -- To rehearse is to devour : cannibalizing the canon -- The cannibal as imaginary interlocutor -- Cia. dos atores : "an ample anthropophagy, general, and unrestricted" -- First steps : the dead woman -- Transversal authorship : rehearsal : Hamlet -- Failure on a white stage : Seagull play -- The freedom to chew, eat, spit -- Remembering in green and yellow, or the handiwork of telling -- Playwriting Brazil -- Popular aesthetic in a baroque landscape : Grupo Galpão -- Writing the arid : Newton Moreno -- Summoning colonial ghosts under the dictatorship : hauntings of old Recife -- Mapping ancestors : Os Fofos Encenam's Sugarcane memoir -- Theatrical entradas : expeditions into the territories of history -- Rerouting Pindorama : Grupo Galpão -- Occupying Rio de Janeiro : Centro de Demolição e Construção do Espetáculo -- Expeditions in São Paulo : Teatro da Vertigem -- Rendering citizenship -- A postface, or the secret science of forgetting Summary "After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequences of decades of state-imposed censorship. By offering an in-depth examination of key artists and their works, Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento highlights Brazil's political trajectory while never allowing the weight of historical events to offset key aesthetic trends. Brazilian theater artists born around the time of the nation's 1964 military coup experienced the oppressive rule of dictatorship throughout their formative years, but came of age as Brazil re-entered democracy some two decades later. This book showcases how the post-dictatorship generation developed performances that mapped the uncharted territories of Brazil's political trauma with new dramaturgies, site-specific and street productions, and aesthetic experimentation. The author's in-depth research into a wide array of archival materials and publications in both Portuguese and English demonstrates how the artistic practices of significant post-dictatorship artists such as Cia. dos Atores, Teatro da Vertigem, Grupo Galpão, Os Fofos Encenam, and Newton Moreno were driven by critical thinking and a postcolonial sentiment, proving symptomatic of the nation's shift from an ethos of half-truth telling into a transitional justice that fell short in affirming citizenship. Ideal for scholars of the intersection of theatre and politics, After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation offers insight into the function of theater in times of political turmoil and artmaking practices that emerge in response to oppressive regimes"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Theater -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Brazil -- History -- 21st century Theater -- Political aspects -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century Theater -- Political aspects -- Brazil -- History -- 21st century PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. ART -- Caribbean & Latin American. Theater Theater -- Political aspects Brazil Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021701940 ISBN 9780429881886 0429881886 9780429881893 0429881894 9780429466526 0429466528 9780429881879 0429881878

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