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| Author(s): |
Nina Nussenzweig Hotimsky
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-09-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Sérgio Ricardo de Carvalho Santos;
Alexandre Villibor Flory;
Walter Garcia da Silveira Junior
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| Advisor: | Sérgio Ricardo de Carvalho Santos |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation investigates the censured staging of Calabar. The play was written by Chico Buarque de Hollanda and Ruy Guerra in 1973 and directed by Fernando Peixoto the same year. It was censured a few days before of its debut by the Military-Civil Dictatorship. The research undertaken in this study assembled documents concerning the theatrical production, including unplublished testimonies from the period, recorded on audio tapes by Fernando Peixoto and his assistant director, Mario Masetti. Interviews with artists that participated in the process of rehearsals were also undertaken as a part of this investigation. Based on this material an analysis was produced of the interrupted theatrical production, organized in three parts. The first part deals with the process of producing the play. Many of Peixoto\'s reflections concerning Calabar are associated with the limits and possibilities established by its form of production. The director evaluates the obstacles of leftist theatrical productions enclosed within the commercial circuit. The second part describes and analyzes the rendering of the dramaturgy by the director\'s team. Peixoto and Masetti reflect upon the potentialities of the text and the aspects of the staging that conflict with the intentions of the dramaturgy. The third part is dedicated to the analysis of certain aspects of the censured staging of Calabar. Peixoto articulated a formulation of the staging in which a chorus that represented the people had an important role. This chorus was meant to project a glimpse of a popular struggle, undertaken in the absence of a hero. The participation of the chorus in this staging dialogues with a certain tradition of musical politicized theater of the sixties, but its specificity is associated with the particular Brazilian scenario of the seventies. Upon studying the censured staging of Calabar, this research sought to investigate the relations between the scenic form, conditions of production and the historical context within which this play was enacted. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/19467-7 - Study of the censured staging of Chico Buarque de Hollanda's and Ruy Guerra's play, Calabar: the political musical theater of the 1970s |
| Grantee: | Nina Nussenzweig Hotimsky |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |