Dramaturgia do Agora: mamulengo e mobilização social no teatro de Fernando Limoeiro

Abstract

The author of this thesis looks into presenting a critical reading of the work of diretor and playwirght Fernando Limoeiro, from Pernambuco/Brasil, based on some of his texts, enfacizing the scenic recreation of formal and symbolic elements from the traditional cultures, specially the mamulengo, the traditional puppet theater art form from northeastern Brasil.This proposition of a popular and national theater is formulated by the author in the manifesto Dramaturgia do Agora, which describes his own theory and practice of a quick, popular and dialogical theater, bonded to the social causes, born in the rispness and the artistic and cultural wealthiness of the Agreste and sugar cane monoculture zone of Pernambuco.