Flash and Crash Days deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre? This book examines how the absence of censorship, on the one hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the other have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the opportunity to be heard.
Author(s): David George
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 200
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series Preface......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Gerald Thomas and the Postmodernist Theater in Brazil......Page 22
Women Writers and the Quest for Identity: From Fiction into Playwriting......Page 78
General Considerations on Scholarship, Playwriting, and Theater Companies......Page 140
Afterword......Page 176
Works Cited......Page 182
Index......Page 190
