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| Author(s): |
Marlene Cristiane Gomes Britos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-06-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Dilma de Melo Silva;
Reynuncio Napoleão de Lima;
Sérgio Ricardo de Carvalho Santos
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| Advisor: | Dilma de Melo Silva |
| Abstract | |
This research investigates two contemporary experiences of popular theater in the Latin America: the political theater developed by the group Filhos da Mãe... Terra, founded by young militants of MST (Without Land Movement), residents of the camp Carlos Lamarca, in Sarapuí, Sao Paulos countryside; and the Espantapájaros, theatrical community formed by young people who belong to Cultural Corporation Nuestra Gente, which acts in the district of Santa Cruz (and surroundings), in the suburb of the city of Medellín, in Colombia. The main goal of this study was to understand how two different social groups use the theatrical language, looking for the approximations between the political theater practiced by Without Land Movement, with strong influence épica-brechtiana; and the subjective communitarian theater developed by the Colombian young people. Besides the similarities, the investigation intended also to look for the differences, with the intention of promoting the dialog between two works that start from the same premise: to put the theater to service of the knowledge and of the social transformation. In this way, the understanding of the social-political context where these experiences were developed was very important, since the reality of Brazil and Colombia, in a large extent, forged the foundation of organizations like MST and Nuestra Gente. The research intends to supply also a modest collaboration to reveal the lack of knowledge that devastates the social-artistic current experiences in the Latin America. (AU) | |