Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. Robson Corrêa de Camargo is a professor of drama and performance at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, where he heads the Ph.D. Program of Cultural Performances. He has also been a theater critic with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Movimento.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Eva Paulino Bueno and Robson Corrêa de Camargo)I. Establishing Historical MarkersWeaving the Narrative of the Construction of the History of Brazilian Theater in the 1970s (Jacó Guinsburg and Rosangela Patriota)Factory Workers on Stage: The Creation of Grupo de Teatro Forja in São Paulo’s Industrial Region (Tin Urbinatti)History and Stories of Animation Theater in Brazil, 1970–2010 (Wagner Cintra)For the Future of a History of the Theater in Rio Grande do Sul (Taís Ferreira)Children’s Theater in Brazil: History, Pedagogy and Art (Leny Fernandes Zulim)Moments of Street Theater in Brazil: A Brief Historical Review (Licko Turle and Jussara Trindade)Family-Circus, ­Theater-Circus: It Is Theater in the Circus (Erminia Silva)II. Practices and ExperimentsImbrication of Art and Politics: Group Theater in the City of São Paulo and Movements Against Barbarism (Alexandre Mate)The Sound and Meaning of Accents: A Study of the Paraíba Case (Adriana Fernandes)Melodrama and Companhia dos Atores of Rio de Janeiro: New Dramatic Forms for an Old Genre (Robson Corrêa de Camargo)Hybrid Aesthetic Identity in Capitão e a Sereia by the Group Clowns de Shakespeare in Rio Grande do Norte (Erlon Cherque Pinto)Shared Memories in a Brasília Drama (Rita de Almeida Castro)Beckett with Curupira Feet: Group Máskara, Readings and Receptions to Beckett in the Interior of Brazil (Eduardo José Reinato)About the ContributorsIndex

Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. Robson Corrêa de Camargo is a professor of drama and performance at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, where he heads the Ph.D. Program of Cultural Performances. He has also been a theater critic with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Movimento.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Eva Paulino Bueno and Robson Corrêa de Camargo)I. Establishing Historical MarkersWeaving the Narrative of the Construction of the History of Brazilian Theater in the 1970s (Jacó Guinsburg and Rosangela Patriota)Factory Workers on Stage: The Creation of Grupo de Teatro Forja in São Paulo’s Industrial Region (Tin Urbinatti)History and Stories of Animation Theater in Brazil, 1970–2010 (Wagner Cintra)For the Future of a History of the Theater in Rio Grande do Sul (Taís Ferreira)Children’s Theater in Brazil: History, Pedagogy and Art (Leny Fernandes Zulim)Moments of Street Theater in Brazil: A Brief Historical Review (Licko Turle and Jussara Trindade)Family-Circus, ­Theater-Circus: It Is Theater in the Circus (Erminia Silva)II. Practices and ExperimentsImbrication of Art and Politics: Group Theater in the City of São Paulo and Movements Against Barbarism (Alexandre Mate)The Sound and Meaning of Accents: A Study of the Paraíba Case (Adriana Fernandes)Melodrama and Companhia dos Atores of Rio de Janeiro: New Dramatic Forms for an Old Genre (Robson Corrêa de Camargo)Hybrid Aesthetic Identity in Capitão e a Sereia by the Group Clowns de Shakespeare in Rio Grande do Norte (Erlon Cherque Pinto)Shared Memories in a Brasília Drama (Rita de Almeida Castro)Beckett with Curupira Feet: Group Máskara, Readings and Receptions to Beckett in the Interior of Brazil (Eduardo José Reinato)About the ContributorsIndex

Eva Paulino Bueno is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Languages at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She has published widely on Brazilian literature and popular culture, as well as on comparative literature and feminist studies. Robson Corrêa de Camargo is a professor of drama and performance at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, where he heads the Ph.D. Program of Cultural Performances. He has also been a theater critic with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo and the magazine Movimento.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Eva Paulino Bueno and Robson Corrêa de Camargo)I. Establishing Historical MarkersWeaving the Narrative of the Construction of the History of Brazilian Theater in the 1970s (Jacó Guinsburg and Rosangela Patriota)Factory Workers on Stage: The Creation of Grupo de Teatro Forja in São Paulo’s Industrial Region (Tin Urbinatti)History and Stories of Animation Theater in Brazil, 1970–2010 (Wagner Cintra)For the Future of a History of the Theater in Rio Grande do Sul (Taís Ferreira)Children’s Theater in Brazil: History, Pedagogy and Art (Leny Fernandes Zulim)Moments of Street Theater in Brazil: A Brief Historical Review (Licko Turle and Jussara Trindade)Family-Circus, ­Theater-Circus: It Is Theater in the Circus (Erminia Silva)II. Practices and ExperimentsImbrication of Art and Politics: Group Theater in the City of São Paulo and Movements Against Barbarism (Alexandre Mate)The Sound and Meaning of Accents: A Study of the Paraíba Case (Adriana Fernandes)Melodrama and Companhia dos Atores of Rio de Janeiro: New Dramatic Forms for an Old Genre (Robson Corrêa de Camargo)Hybrid Aesthetic Identity in Capitão e a Sereia by the Group Clowns de Shakespeare in Rio Grande do Norte (Erlon Cherque Pinto)Shared Memories in a Brasília Drama (Rita de Almeida Castro)Beckett with Curupira Feet: Group Máskara, Readings and Receptions to Beckett in the Interior of Brazil (Eduardo José Reinato)About the ContributorsIndex