In the belly of the monster: workers\' dramaturgy in the ABCD region (Brazil) and in the Southwest of the United States of America

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Eduardo Luis Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-18062020-185930/
• topic: Agitprop theater; Chicano theater; Epic theater; Labor Union theater; Teatro Chicano; Teatro de agitprop; Teatro dos trabalhadores; Teatro épico; Teatro sindical; Working-class theater

This study analyzes theater plays produced by Chicano troupes in the United States between the 1960s and 1980s and by working-class theater groups in the ABC region of Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s. The analytical perspective considered emphasizes the sociopolitical and historical foundations of such artistic creations, in an effort to relate forms and content to the concrete contexts of production. The groups and works selected had intimate relations with labor unions or a working-class milieu and dealt with broad dialectics of integration and non-integration to the hegemonic economic system. The new tendencies of political militancy of the Left starting in the 1960s, which encompassed innovative approaches to labor union movements, parties, and religiosity, were heavily impacting elements of the theater plays examined within this study. The theatrical forms developed by both the Chicano groups El Teatro Campesino, La Compañía de Teatro de Alburquerque, and Teatro Libertad and the Brazilian troupes from the ABC region Teatro Ferramenta, Teatro Forja, and Teatro Debate do ABC reflected their search for documentary resources capable of social denouncement and artistic expressions that could reconnect them to ancient, popular, cultural traditions.