Theatre of the Oppressed and Teatro de Arena: In and Out of Context
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David George [1]
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[1] Lake Forest College
Lake Forest College
Township of Shields, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 28, Nº. 2, 1995, págs. 39-54
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
United States scholarship on Brazilian theatre has dealt preponderantly and uncritically with Augusto Boal, who gained notoriety outside Brazil after the 1964 coup through his involvement in engage theatre and subsequently through theoretical works on "popular" and agit-prop theatre. Theories such as coringa and "theatre of the oppressed," now judged authoritarian and passe by many in Brazil, are still embraced enthusiastically by scholars in the United States. "Theatre of the Oppressed and Teatro de Arena: In and Out of Context" attempts to demonstrate that those theories correspond not to popularfolkloric culture, but to authoritarian populism. That is, theatrical populism is analogus to Stalinist socialist realism, which forced popular-folkloric culture through a doctrinaire sieve and homogenized it, thereby "correcting" it ideologically. This article, furthermore, seeks to set the record straight regarding the history of Teatro de Arena.
