Crises and Brazilian Theatre

Abstract

Brazil is going through a political and economic crisis of major proportions – an unprecedented recession and the rise of an illegitimate government following the impeachment of the elected president. Theatre responds to this crisis with a timely production of reflection and, eventually, militancy. It also responds to another crisis: that of the pertinence of language and of modes of theatrical production in the context of a society in which relationships take place in a virtual environment, to the detriment of real social and political action. The objective of this text is to identify the general lines of this kind of production.