Authoritarianism versus freedom of expression: brazilian theater dribbles past censorhio with insight

• Autor(a) principal: Pelegrini, Sandra de Cássia Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/21080
• topic: History; Art; Culture; Theater; Military dictatorship; History; História; Arte; Cultura; Teatro; Ditadura militar; História

This reflection proposes a discussion about the tricks used by theatrical producers, playwrights and actors to deceive the military governments censors that succeed in Brazil between 1964 and 1985. In this sense, it broaches the production of some plays, focusing those ones that contemplated themes assessed as immoral or reverberated on political issues taken as subversive. Creative professionals concealed the content of the messages in the scripts, dialogues and sceneries of many plays in this period, but not disregarding, for example, aesthetic impasses, the existential and class questions, the hidden problems under the aegis of progress and the consumer society. The complexity of this proposition implies the understanding about the strategies used by artists and the tactics used by the censors, who were based on a body of laws and trained by the National Police Academy, to curb the works that denote characteristics considered highly harmful to the maintenance of public order and democratic and christian values.