Theatre and Dictatorship in the Luso-Hispanic World explores the discourses that have linked theatrical performance and prevailing dictatorial regimes across Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. These are divided into three different approaches to theatre itself - as cultural practice, as performance, and as textual artifact - addressing topics including obedience, resistance, authoritarian policies, theatre business, exile, violence, memory, trauma, nationalism, and postcolonialism. This book draws together a diverse range of methodological approaches to foreground the effects and constraints of dictatorship on theatrical expression and how theatre responds to these impositions.
Author(s): Diego Santos Sánchez
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
Edition: ebk
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
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Contents
1 Weaving the Luso-Hispanic fabric: an entangled world of dictatorial constraints and theatrical responses
PART I Policies/Practices
2 Theatre censorship and foreign drama in Estado Novo Portugal during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War
3 Censorship on the Brazilian scene: the “distribution of the sensible” and art as a political force
4 José Tamayo: foreign policy and cultural opportunism
5 Galician independent theatre: a breach in Franco’s dictatorship
6 The aftermath of dictatorship in contemporary Basque theatre
PART II Performance
7 Are all tyrannies the same? Rebellion against Spanish oppression as a re-enactment of resistance to totalitarianism in Marcos’ Philippines
8 Puppet theatre as response to dictatorship in Catalonia and Chile
9 Dagoll Dagom’s No hablaré en clase, a postdramatic response to Francoism
10 The politics of community and place in o bando’s Nós Matámos o Cão Tinhoso!
PART III Texts
11 Bridging literary traditions in the Hispanic world: Equatorial Guinean drama and the dictatorial cultural-political order
12 Soldiers without orders, actors without stages: Carlos Manuel Varela’s Interrogatorio en Elsinore and Bosco Brasil’s Novas diretrizes em tempos de paz
13 Complicitous acts in Argentina’s theatre: La nona and De a uno
14 Paraguay between dictatorships: El Edificio, an unknown play by Josefina Plá
15 Negotiating sexuality and censorship in Las sábanas by José Corrales
16 Appropriating the past under Somoza and the Sandinistas: the polyvalent sign of El Güegüence
Index
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Weaving the Luso-Hispanic fabric: an entangled world of dictatorial constraints and theatrical responses / Diego Santos Sánchez --
Theatre censorship and foreign drama in Estado Novo Portugal during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War / Zsófia Gombár --
Censorship on the Brazilian scene: the "distribution of the sensible" and art as a political force / Maria Cristina Castillo Costa and Walter de Sousa Junior --
José Tamayo: foreign policy and cultural opportunism / Carey Kasten --
Galician independent theatre: a breach in Franco's dictatorship / Cilha Lourenço Módia --
The aftermath of dictatorship in contemporary Basque theatre / Arantzazu Fernández Iglesias --
Are all tyrannies the same? Rebellion against Spanish oppression as a reenactment of resistance to totalitarianism in Marcos' Philippines / Rocío Ortuño Casanova --
Puppet theatre as response to dictatorship in Catalonia and Chile / Cariad Astles --
Dagoll Dagom's no hablaré en clase, a postdramatic response to Francoism / David Rodríguez Solás --
The politics of community and place in o Bando's Nós Matámos o Ca̋o Tinhoso! / Vanessa Silva Pereira --
Bridging literary traditions in the Hispanic world: equatorial Guinean drama and the dictatorial cultural-political order / Elisa Rizo --
Soldiers without orders, actors without stages: Carlos Manuel Varela's interrogatorio en Elsinore and Bosco Brasil's Novas diretrizes em tempos de paz / Katya Soll --
Complicitous acts in Argentina's theater: La nona and De a uno / Ariel Strichart --
Paraguay between dictatorships: El Edificio, an Unknown play by Josefina Plá / Yasmina Yousfi --
Negotiating sexuality and censorship in Las Sábanas by José Corrales / Lourdes Betanzos --
Appropriating the past under Somoza and the Sandinistas: the polyvalent sign of el Güegüence / E.J. Westlake.
