O Santo e a Porca, by Ariano Suassuna, and the staging in the theater Cacilda Becker (1958)

• Grant number: 13/03924-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: May 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Larissa de Oliveira Neves Catalão
• Grantee: Cassandra Batista Peixoto Ormachea
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this project is to study the historical assembly of the debut of O Santo e a Porca by the company of Theater Cacilda Becker. In addition, I propose an analysis of the piece primarily focused on comedy types. The search will be made in the regular season and from specific bibliography. The textual analysis will include a general study on comedy and comic type, in addition to the reading of the various articles and scholarly research on the matter. (AU)