Em Cena: o teatro no Centro Popular de Cultura da União Nacional dos Estudantes (CPC da UNE) 1961-1964

Abstract

This study purposed to analyze the Popular Center of Culture of the national Union of the Students (CPC of the UNE) through the theater, in the period of its actuation between the years 1961 and 1964. The theater works is understood as a way of expression of the cultural practices of the social people from a determined epoch for this reason it presents in this research as an object of study and as historical source. We try to show how the history of this entity was being built during decades, such for researches as for its ex components through registered speeches. This way, when looking at the entity from the present questions, the several authors were appreciating some particulars from this group. To contextualize the theories and the practices of the CPC of the UNE, we examined the documentation produced by the group, such documentation very restricted, and the conceptions developed in the period by its members. We got to the conclusion that the CPC's universe was heterogeneous, it means, there were different concepts of art, of politics and of people. With the intention of amplifying the debates about the national theater and the popular theater, we observed the question which were discussed in Brazil in the epoch before the entity building, to understand its actuation in intellectual spaces, since the end of the 50's. We noticed that the CPC, in spite of the expression CPC of the UNE , didn't appear from the students' projects but from the aspiration which existed in the Arena Theater of amplifying the public and projecting on the stage subjects which expressed the national reality. The CPC's drama was studied with the aim of the comprehension how the authors of the theatrical texts conceived the office of theater. For it, we emphasize in the thematic plays, the characters' the representations, the language, the scene elements and the use of the narrative resource. This dissertation is inserted in the discussion of the popular culture, because in the theatrical works exist political conceptions, definitions of people and aesthetic referral back to an effective communication with the public