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Authors

  • Marco Antonio Rodrigues Folias

Abstract

In the text, I explore the blunt sensations and reflections that the Pandemic and isolation left behind, and which, accompanied by the country's recent political and poetic crises, printed new dilemmas and possibilities to theatre. Based on "One Hundred Years of Solitude", by Gabriel García Márquez (2017), I describe a scene that adjusts that is out of adjustment, but that adjusts to the new reality, in contrast  to the imaginary design of a project that is difficult to complete, which would bring back the figure and art of the storyteller, by Walter Benjamin (1994) writing about Nikolai Leskov. Peter Brook (1970) , Bertolt Brecht (1973), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (2013) and Plínio Marcos (1977) are companions of this writing, which dialogues with the essay form, in a chronicle of the present time in which I am also a character. All of these personas are pillars on which the theatre reorganises itself, to seek a return of imagination, in dramaturgies that are worth the war. Keywords: Political theatre; Theatrical aesthetics; Brazilian theatre; Direction.

Published

2023-12-20