As formas breves e o teatro mínimo nos Bonecos de Santo Aleixo

• Autor(a) principal: Zurbach, Christine
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i5.6805

Since it has traditionally occupied a marginal status within the system of reputed theatrical forms, puppet theatre possesses a repertoire of great interest for a refl ection on what can be understood as «minimal theatre». This paper intends to highlight this notion by focussing on a case study, the theatre of «the puppets of Santo Aleixo». Apart from resorting to a repertoire which covers several forms either derived from farce – typically a short form – or contaminated by it, it is a kind of performance in which the dialogue as a minimal form of theatre or «meaning-form» adopts a predominant role and visibility, thereby hailing the essence of theatre itself in the Aristotelian sense.