O teatro político de Augusto Boal: notas sobre sua trajetória no teatro de arena de São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Furtoso, Vanessa Cristina Monteiro [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/202955; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2018-09-28/000908079.pdf
• topic: Boal, Augusto, 1931-2009; Teatro de arena; Ativistas políticos; Teatro e sociedade; Teatro político

This paper intends to resume the theater manifestations performed by Augusto Boal during the years he acted as director of the Teatro de Arena of São Paulo and to emphasize the reasons that led him to develop his political poetic, highlighting his role as the director of a politically engaged theater. Augusto Boal became worldwide known for developing the Theater of the Oppressed. His theater was formulated during the years he was exiled in Latin America and was launched for the first time in France, planting seeds in many other countries and generating groups of Theater of the Oppressed, which act in search of a better society. However, this poetic was born, actually, during the years he worked as the director of the Teatro de Arena, in São Paulo, when Brazil was facing a period of violence, repression and censorship: the Military Dictatorship. His path in the Brazilian theater will gradually take him towards a popular and political theater, until his work is radicalized as a militancy and denunciation proposition, facing the national political conjuncture. Within the years of 1964 and 1971, Boal leads an artistic movement of resistance with Arena's spectacles, which will be decisive to the heading he chooses to take in theater.